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Radioactive iodine and cesium from Fukushima nuclear plant

Report: Emissions from Japan plant approach Chernobyl levels, USA Today, By Michael Winter, 24 March 11. Emissions of radioactive iodine and cesium from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant have approached levels after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, New Scientist reports. Austrian researchers made the calculations by using the global network of detectors designed to sniff out clandestine nuclear bomb tests.

Iodine-131 is being released at daily levels 73% of those detected after Chernobyl, while the daily amount of cesium-137 is about 60%, according to researcher from Austria’s Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics…… Report: Emissions from Japan plant approach Chernobyl levels –

March 26, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | - Fukushima 2011