Sarah Miller Extreme contamination found at Fukushima plant - Cesium over 2 BILLION Bq/liter; MILLIONS of times above limit WSJ: Extreme contamination found at Fukushima plant — Cesium over 2 billion Bq/liter; Millions of times above limit — Tepco ‘trying’ to stop it leaking into ocean — ‘Probably’ from melted reactor core Levels Recorded Haven’t Been Seen Since Soon After 2011 Disaster Extremely high concentrations of radiation have been detected in water from near one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, [Tepco] said Saturday. [...] The radiation is millions of times higher than Japan’s acceptable limit under normal circumstances. Radiation of 750 million becquerels a liter of cesium-134 and 1.6 billion becquerels a liter of cesium-137 was recorded, Tepco said. [...] In April 2011 a combined 1.8 billion becquerels was recorded. [...] The sample came from a trench near the No. 2 reactor turbine building, the utility said. [...] Tepco is searching for the water source. It is probably from one of the damaged reactor cores. It is trying to stop the water leaking into the sea, it said. [...]
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:06:40 +0000