High radioactivity detected in seawater near Japan’s tsunami hit nuke plant
March 22nd, 2011 - 12:46 pm ICT by ANITokyo, Mar 22 (ANI): Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO) has said that highly concentrated radioactive substances have been detected in seawater close to the earthquake-cum-tsunami hit Fukushima nuclear power plant after the radioactive substances were passed into it through the nuclear plant’s discharging outlets.
The Xinhua news agency quoted TEPCO as saying that the radioactive iodine level detected in seawater samples was 131, which is 126.7 times higher than the legal concentration limit, while levels of caesium was registered to be 134, 24.8 times higher than the set standard.
Although no explosion had taken place inside the plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency officials are of the opinion that levels of radiation up to 1,600 times higher than normal were detected in an area 20 kilometres away from the affected nuclear plant.
The IAEA has also claimed that radiation levels of 161 microsievert per hour were detected in the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture. (ANI)
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