Two large radiation leaks at Fukushima (caused by yesterday's earthquake??)

The report on 700 tons of "highly radioactive water" is on the NHK website but there is another on the latest news broadcast that hasn't made it to the website yet. There was some speculation that the 6.5 earthquake which just hit the area has caused problems.

Workers have observed readings of 10 seiverts per hour from the air "near the piping of an exhaust duct" between reactors 1 & 2. The readings were taken by workers using a gauge on a long pole after measurements with a "special camera" yesterday revealed a problem. According to the TEPCO announcement the employees were exposed to a maximum of 4 milliseiverts of radiation while taking the measurements.

The area has been roped off.


Also:
Highly radioactive water flows into another place

Highly radioactive water has been found in the basement of a building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant near the storage facility for contaminated water.

Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Monday that it discovered about 700 tons of contaminated water on Saturday in the basement of an on-site building.

The utility said the water contained 19,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium 134 per cubic centimeter, and 22,000 becquerels of cesium 137 --- both very high levels.

Until June, the building was connected by a hose with another building where highly radioactive water is now being stored. The buildings are located next to each other and are part of the plant's waste disposal facility.

The utility is investigating

what's the problem and why TF doesn't the world care?

They will have the area sealed off in less than 10 years.

They are dealing with a situation for which there is no precedent.
IOW, they are flying by the seat of their pants.
They are making it up as they go along.
Making educated guesses.
"Lets try this!!"
"Oops!!"

I was reading along at JAIF, and it seems that all the rain and the only partial success of their water decontamination system has led to little reduction in the amount of radioactive water.

Still, this seems to be on another order of magnitude!

I am sure you are right, Kristopher, in relating these leaks to the earthquake. But if the 10 sieverts an hour is correct, then something else is going on. No water that radioactive has yet been reported.

If that measurement is correct it seems likely that some extremely radioactive debris has been disturbed.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/07/31/bloomberg1376-LP8WWK6JTSEJ01-5PIJEFGJ36KM50OK194CMKAJ22.DTL

The explanation given there just does not seem to be plausible, given that when they were venting from the stack after the disaster, they were reporting low emissions.

Ah, well, it won't surprise anyone that a TEPCO explanation makes no sense.

They're not even saying this is a leak. They're saying it is residual contamination, apparently from the inside of the ventilation stack!

statements that the radiation has been going down? Hmm?

Bah.

They're lying, they were lying, they're still lying. This is just the most recent "worst" report from their continued information control and propaganda of the nuke filth spewfest that this thing really is...

So, they've admitted a 10Sv/hr reading now. Wow. Great.
Just look at the video of the things exploding (again) to get a grasp on reality.

they're admitting a leak greater than 10Sv/hr... I RTFA and it says the measuring equipment only went up to 10Sv/hr maximum.
Good thing they can accurately say the guys who took the reading only got 4mSv exposure...
How can they know it? well... you know... they haven't been wrong before so... like... you figure it out.