Tokyo. .- The Nuclear Safety Agency of Japan reported on Saturday that in sea areas near the nuclear plant in Fukushima-1, affected by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 have been detected much higher levels of radioactivity the legal maximum allowed. They have also reported that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has begun to inject water into the reactor core, two to improve the efficiency of the refrigerator.
Thus, the levels of iodine-131 are 1,250 times above the legal limit, as drawn from a sample of sea water taken on Friday morning, 330 meters south of the plant, as reported by the agency Japan's Kyodo news. And the level reached its peak since the beginning of the week, after starting it a hundred times over the legal limit.
TEPCO attributed this increase to reach the sea of radioactive water drained from the plant. The result could raise concerns about the products obtained by fishing in the northeast. Radioactive materials are "significantly diluted" when ingested by marine species, according to the agency said, you added will have no significant impact on fisheries and it is not done in an area 20 miles plant.
If people ingest 500 milliliters of water containing the recorded level of iodine, radiation levels would reach the limit of a millisievert to which a person can be exposed on an annual basis without suffering any health risks. For its part, the U.S. Energy Department said that according to their data, comparing data on Thursday with air radioactivity measurements carried out beforehand, the results indicate that the maximum exposure in the west-central Fukushima 1 are lower.
TEPCO is trying to remove the pools of water containing highly concentrated radioactive substances to prevent them from moving from one reactor to another or the fuel pools. At the same time, they are trying to restore power in the reactor number two. On Thursday, three workers were exposed to 200 millisievert rates per hour in the turbine building of reactor number three, which precipitated the change of plans.
In an effort to keep jobs cooling, spraying jets are still one and three, but now with fresh water rather than sea water as was done in the early days of the operation. Among the employed were fears that the salt from seawater was crystallizing, which would cause the smoke intermittently has divested some buildings in recent days. 
Thus, the levels of iodine-131 are 1,250 times above the legal limit, as drawn from a sample of sea water taken on Friday morning, 330 meters south of the plant, as reported by the agency Japan's Kyodo news. And the level reached its peak since the beginning of the week, after starting it a hundred times over the legal limit.
TEPCO attributed this increase to reach the sea of radioactive water drained from the plant. The result could raise concerns about the products obtained by fishing in the northeast. Radioactive materials are "significantly diluted" when ingested by marine species, according to the agency said, you added will have no significant impact on fisheries and it is not done in an area 20 miles plant.
If people ingest 500 milliliters of water containing the recorded level of iodine, radiation levels would reach the limit of a millisievert to which a person can be exposed on an annual basis without suffering any health risks. For its part, the U.S. Energy Department said that according to their data, comparing data on Thursday with air radioactivity measurements carried out beforehand, the results indicate that the maximum exposure in the west-central Fukushima 1 are lower.
TEPCO is trying to remove the pools of water containing highly concentrated radioactive substances to prevent them from moving from one reactor to another or the fuel pools. At the same time, they are trying to restore power in the reactor number two. On Thursday, three workers were exposed to 200 millisievert rates per hour in the turbine building of reactor number three, which precipitated the change of plans.
In an effort to keep jobs cooling, spraying jets are still one and three, but now with fresh water rather than sea water as was done in the early days of the operation. Among the employed were fears that the salt from seawater was crystallizing, which would cause the smoke intermittently has divested some buildings in recent days.
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