Typhoon causes even more radioactive water to flow into Pacific Ocean at crippled Fukushima plant - NaturalNews.com

Typhoon causes even more radioactive water to flow into Pacific Ocean at crippled Fukushima plant - NaturalNews.com

Typhoon causes even more radioactive water to flow into Pacific Ocean at crippled Fukushima plant

 

 (NaturalNews) Heavy rains from Typhoon Nangka caused radioactive water and soil to flow from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and into the Pacific Ocean, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has admitted.

The
Fukushima plant has been shuttered since three of its reactors melted
down following a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Since then, TEPCO
has struggled to contain the constant flow of rainwater into the plant's
flooded basements, where the water comes in contact with the reactor
cores and becomes radioactive. The company has tried everything from
pumping and storing the radioactive water (to keep it from building up
so much that it spills back into the groundwater) to building an "ice
wall" to stem the flow, but radioactive water continues to spill into
the ocean.