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

REUTERS | 01 September, 2013 09:34

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2013/09/01/radiation-readings-spike-at-water-tank-at-japan-s-ruined-nuclear-plant

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.

A worker walks in front of water tanks at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. File photo.
Image by: POOL / REUTERS

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.

The Fukushima plant was destroyed by a tsunami in March 2011 in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl a quarter of a century earlier.

September 1, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized