April 13, 2014 -- (TRN) -- A Magnitude 4.8 earthquake has taken place TODAY in the ocean less than 25 miles from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Site in Japan and a new radiation leak has taken place at the plant!  The earthquake was felt for more than 500 km along the Japanese coastline. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) the quake measured 4.8 at a depth of 55 km.  Map and VIDEO of the quake, below!

The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster Site in Japan has been hit with another earthquake and has developed a new radiation leak.  According to the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)  Up to one ton of radioactive water has leaked out of a plastic storage tank at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant,  some 700 meters away from the shore. The tank’s lower part is damaged to allow tainted water to flow into the ground The water contained 440 becquerels [per liter] of cesium-134 and 1,200 becquerels [per liter] of cesium-137 as well as 1,400 becquerels [per liter] of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances such as strontium-90, according to TEPCO.

This latest trouble comes on the heels of a revelation by TEPCO that a previous leak in August of last year at No. 1 Reactor was far more toxic than announced: After recalculating the radiation level, Tepco said the water contained 280 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive materials such as strontium-90, instead of 80 million becquerels¹. A total of 300 tons of toxic water was found to have leaked at that time, part of which is believed to have flowed into the adjacent Pacific Ocean. The Nuclear Regulation Authority assessed the severity of the incident to be level 3 on an eight-point international scale.

¹ 280,000,000 Bq/liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive materials such as strontium-90 * 1,000 liters/metric ton * 300 tons = 84,000,000,000,000 Bq of beta ray-emitting radioactive materials such as strontium-90

Soon after the INES level 3 incident, a Tepco release stated: “We determined that this incident corresponds to “a case when nuclear fuel material (not in the form of gas) or the like has leaked within an area controlled by the company due to an unpredictable event such as a failure of a nuclear reactor facility for power generation” as per Article 18, item 12 of the regulations concerning the operational safety and the protection of specified nuclear fuel material at the TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi NPS nuclear reactor facilities.”

If another earthquake shakes hard enough, or generates yet another Tsunami from the ocean,  the damaged spent fuel pools that are already falling apart from the March, 2011 quake and tsunami, could rupture or fall over, draining the cooling water.  Without the water covering, the gamma radiation in the area would INSTANTLY rise to lethal levels, making it impossible for people to get near the pools to do anything about it.

Once the spent fuel rods are no longer covered with water, they would melt their Zirconium casings and spontaneously erupt into a nuclear inferno.  As the tons of spent fuel burns, it would pump tons of radiation into the air which would reach the US and Canada within 3 days.

The map below shows the location of today's earthquake relative to the Fukushima disaster site.

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