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Originally posted by Invariance
reply to post by ipsedixit
Thank you for helping me understand
~2nd: my favorite number of the alphabet is blue~
Originally posted by MariaLida
By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo
2:48PM GMT 18 Mar 2013
One fish, a greenling measuring 38 cm in length, was contaminated with 740,000 becquerels per kg - more than 7,400 times the recommended government limit regarded as safe for human consumption.
The discovery is likely to reignite fears that Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may still be leaking radioactive contamination into the ocean more than two years after it was damaged in a major earthquake and tsunami.
www.telegraph.co.uk...edit on 18-3-2013 by MariaLida because: (no reason given)
Tokyo Electric Power Co said that pool temperatures were well within safe levels at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and that pools would remain safe for at least four days without fresh cooling water. The utility was preparing a backup system in case the repairs didn’t fix the problem, Masayuki Ono, an official at operator
Tokyo Electric Power Co, told reporters. “If worse comes to worst, we have a backup water injection system,” said Ono.
The fuel pool for Unit 4, which contains spent and new fuel rods, had risen to 30.5 degrees as of 10am on Tuesday from 25 degrees before the power outage