Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit!!!!!!!

Thanks to Tokyo Electric flushing tens of thousands of tons of highly radio active water into the sea, Japan's ocean radiation has reached 7.5 million times legal limit. This comes a day after they told people it was still safe to eat the fish!

Reporting from Tokyo— The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish.

The reading of iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Another sample taken Monday found the level to be 5 million times the legal limit. The Monday samples also were found to contain radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the legal limit.

On Tuesday the company said the leak instead might be coming from a faulty joint where the pit meets a duct, allowing radioactive water to seep into a layer of gravel underneath. The utility said it would inject "liquid glass" into gravel in an effort to stop further leakage.

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