The sea has launched yet another warning: the section immediately in front of the central Fukushima, severely damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that has devastated Japan, is heavily contaminated. The concentration of iodine-131 would be equal to 1250.8 times the permitted limit in a sample of seawater taken Friday to 330 meters south of the plant, as has announced today the Agency for Nuclear and Industrial Safety.
This is the highest rate of recent days. According to TEPCO, the company that operates the plant, it is likely that radioactive water from the central or used to cool the reactor is damaged over the sea. While continuing efforts to bring under control the damaged reactor: the Japanese technicians have now changed strategy and stopped spraying the stones with sea water, for fear that the salt will attack the plants.
In the last hours was used fresh water. He reports the International Agency for Atomic Energy in a statement. "FUKUSHIMA like Chernobyl."
It is the highest level of severity for nuclear accidents, previously reached only during the accident at Chernobyl in 1986. According to the survey, the total amount of radionuclides of iodine-131 and cesium-137, issued in Fukushima between 11 and 13 March 2011, equivalent to "three times the minimum value to classify an incident as level 7 on the INES scale ' .
This is the highest rate of recent days. According to TEPCO, the company that operates the plant, it is likely that radioactive water from the central or used to cool the reactor is damaged over the sea. While continuing efforts to bring under control the damaged reactor: the Japanese technicians have now changed strategy and stopped spraying the stones with sea water, for fear that the salt will attack the plants.
In the last hours was used fresh water. He reports the International Agency for Atomic Energy in a statement. "FUKUSHIMA like Chernobyl."
It is the highest level of severity for nuclear accidents, previously reached only during the accident at Chernobyl in 1986. According to the survey, the total amount of radionuclides of iodine-131 and cesium-137, issued in Fukushima between 11 and 13 March 2011, equivalent to "three times the minimum value to classify an incident as level 7 on the INES scale ' .
This contamination will continue to grow, then the radioactivity will be concentrated up the food chain leaving most seafood unedible. The end of large parts of the Japanese fishing industry - all for "cheap electricity"!
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