20 August 2013 (21:16 UTC-07 Tango 19 August 2013)/13 Shawwal 1434/29 Mordad 1392/14 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

The Republic of Korea (RoK, aka South Korea) is demanding the government of Japan reveal the truth about what’s going on with the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.  RoK also wants disclosure on the damage being done to the environment.

This demand comes as Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) revealed more and increasing radiation leaks!

After two incidents in a little more than a week saw 12 workers contaminated with dangerous levels of radiation, while standing at a bus stop,  TEPCo officials are now realizing there must be an airborne leak of radiation.  In both cases radiation sensors sounded an alarm, meaning there was radiation in the air.  In the first incident TEPCo blamed a water mister, but that was turned off before the second incident.  The level of airborne radiation was five times more than TEPCo’s own safety standards!

In another case, someone left a check valve open on a retaining wall.  The retaining wall was built around above ground contaminated water storage tanks near Reactor 4, which are leaking.  Over the weekend it was discovered the open check valve was pouring out highly contaminated water, at least 300 tons worth!   The water contains 100 millisieverts per hour of radiation.  The safe limits for nuclear industry workers in Japan are set at 50 millisieverts per year!

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has declared the leaking storage tanks to be a Level One incident, which is considered an “incident-anomaly” on the zero to seven level international standard.  The NRA has ordered TEPCo to conduct soil sampling.

Levels one thru three are considered “incidents”, levels four thru seven are “accidents”.