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Radiation in reactor's building tests 10 million times above normal
Tokyo (CNN) -- Radiation levels in pooled water tested in the No. 2 nuclear reactor's turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are 10 million times above normal, a power company official said Sunday.
An official with Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency said the surface water showed 1,000 millisieverts of radiation. By comparison, an individual in a developed country is naturally exposed to 3 millisieverts per year, though Japan's health ministry has set a 250 millisievert per year cumulative limit before workers must leave the plant.
One person was working in and around the No. 2 reactor when the test result became known, according to an official with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the plant. That individual subsequently left, and work there has stopped until the government signs off on the power company's plan to address the issue.
Work has similar ceased at the No. 3 reactor, where tests earlier indicated radiation 10,000 times normal in its own turbine building.
On Sunday, water was being pumped from the No. 1 reactor's turbine building -- a process that authorities eventually want to repeat in the other two reactors' buildings with pooled, and contaminated, water.
Authorities are still trying to pinpoint the relationship, if any, between these alarming readings from inside these buildings to a continued spike in radiation detected in seawater just offshore.
A Japanese nuclear safety official said Sunday that levels of radioactive iodine-131 measured 330 meters (361 yards) into the Pacific Ocean near the discharge canal for the Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 reactors.
On Saturday, similar readings from the same monitoring posts showed readings of this radioactive strain were 1,250 times above normal. The previous day, they'd been lower -- at 104 times more than a typical level.
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Radiation in reactor's building tests 10 million times above normal
Tokyo (CNN) -- Radiation levels in pooled water tested in the No. 2 nuclear reactor's turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are 10 million times above normal, a power company official said Sunday.
An official with Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency said the surface water showed 1,000 millisieverts of radiation. By comparison, an individual in a developed country is naturally exposed to 3 millisieverts per year, though Japan's health ministry has set a 250 millisievert per year cumulative limit before workers must leave the plant.
One person was working in and around the No. 2 reactor when the test result became known, according to an official with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the plant. That individual subsequently left, and work there has stopped until the government signs off on the power company's plan to address the issue.
Work has similar ceased at the No. 3 reactor, where tests earlier indicated radiation 10,000 times normal in its own turbine building.
On Sunday, water was being pumped from the No. 1 reactor's turbine building -- a process that authorities eventually want to repeat in the other two reactors' buildings with pooled, and contaminated, water.
Authorities are still trying to pinpoint the relationship, if any, between these alarming readings from inside these buildings to a continued spike in radiation detected in seawater just offshore.
A Japanese nuclear safety official said Sunday that levels of radioactive iodine-131 measured 330 meters (361 yards) into the Pacific Ocean near the discharge canal for the Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 reactors.
On Saturday, similar readings from the same monitoring posts showed readings of this radioactive strain were 1,250 times above normal. The previous day, they'd been lower -- at 104 times more than a typical level.
Read more at:
.
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