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Title: Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit
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URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw ... clear-20110406,0,2697428.story
Published: Apr 5, 2011
Author: Kenji Hall and Julie Makinen, Los Angele
Post Date: 2011-04-05 14:47:56 by Rek
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Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit High readings in fish prompt the government to establish a maximum level for safe consumption. April 5, 2011, 4:39 a.m. 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. The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, though Tepco has said that highly contaminated water has been leaking from a pit near the No. 2 reactor. The utility initially believed that the leak was coming from a crack, but several attempts to seal the crack failed. SNIP
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