Saturday, August 31, 2013

Radiation readings spike at water tank at Japan's ruined nuclear plant

Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Motegi inspects contaminated water tanks at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture TOKYO (Reuters) - Radiation at a tank holding highly contaminated water at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has spiked 18-fold, the plant's operator said on Sunday. Radiation of 1,800 millisieverts per hour - enough to kill an exposed person in four hours - was detected near the bottom of one storage tank on Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co, also known as Tepco, said. An August 22 reading measured radiation of 100 millisieverts per hour at the same tank. A Tepco spokesman also said a new leak had been detected from a pipe connecting two other tanks. ...








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/radiation-readings-spike-water-tank-japans-ruined-nuclear-054204612--finance.html

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