8/7/2019 The Atomic Samurais- The Fukushima 50 (With VIDEO, Latest Radiation Contamination Readings & Picture Gallery) http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/the-atomic-samurais-the-fukushima-50-with-video-latest-radiation-contamination 1/9 The Atomic Samurais: The Fukushima 50 (with VIDEO, Latest Radiation Contamination Readings & Picture Gallery) TOKYO — The workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant — known as the Fukushima 50 — expect some of them will die within weeks or months, the mother of one has reportedly said. Tokyo Electric Power Co,the power company, said Friday that radiation leaking from the plant had seeped into groundwater beneath the site. The leak is an indicator of how far TEPCO is from stabilizing the dangerously overheating reactors after cooling systems were knocked out in the March 11 tsunami. Earlier this week, a Japanese minister conceded there was no end in sight to the crisis, although some of the world’s largest cement pumps are being sent to Japan , initially to pump water but then to possibly entomb the site as was done in Chernobyl. www.Zimvi.com
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8/7/2019 The Atomic Samurais- The Fukushima 50 (With VIDEO, Latest Radiation Contamination Readings & Picture Gallery)
“When people return to the area we will test the water to make sure it is safe,” said Masato
Ishikawa, an official with the Fukushima prefecture’s food and sanitation division.
Radiation concerns have rattled the Japanese public, already struggling to return to normal life
after the earthquake-borne tsunami pulverized hundreds of miles of the northeastern coast.
Three weeks after the disaster in one of the most connected countries in the world, 260,000
households still do no have running water and 170,000 do not have electricity.
Radioactive cow
In the latest report of food becoming tainted, the government said Friday that a cow slaughteredfor beef had slightly elevated levels of cesium, another radioactive particle. Officials stressed that
the meat was never put on the market.
Radioactive cesium can build up in the body and high levels are thought to be a risk for various
cancers.
It is still found in wild boar in Germany 25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, making
the pigs off-limits for eating in many cases.
Though TEPCO has acknowledged that it was initially slow to ask for help in dealing with the
nuclear crisis, experts from around the world are now flooding in