Fukushima fish still contaminated from nuclear accident

[Emily]

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/fukushima-fish-still-contaminated-from-nuclear-accident/article4044089.ece

October 29, 2012
Fukushima fish still contaminated from nuclear accident
New York Times Syndication
Levels of radioactive contamination in fish caught off the east coast of Japan remain raised, official data shows.

It is a sign that the Dai-ichi power plant continues to be a source of pollution more than a year after the nuclear accident. About 40 percent of fish caught close to Fukushima itself are regarded as unfit for humans under Japanese regulations. The respected U.S. marine chemist Ken Buesseler hasreviewed the data in this week?s Science journal.

He says there are probably two sources of lingering contamination. ?There is the ongoing leakage into the ocean of polluted ground water from under Fukushima, and there is the contamination that?s already in the sediments just offshore,? he told BBC News.

?It all points to this issue being long-term and one that will need monitoring for decades into the future.?

Buesseler is affiliated to the U.S. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His evaluation covers a year?s worth of data gathered by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries...

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Fukushima fish still contaminated from nuclear accident

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November 13, 2012

By HIROSHI ISHIZUKA/ Staff Writer
Persistently high radioactivity in some fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked a government investigation into the physiological basis for contamination and why radiation readings in some specimens remain hundreds of times over the official safe limit.

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http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211130032

 

[Emily]

Re: Fukushima fish still contaminated from nuclear accident

http://post.jagran.com/fish-with-high-levels-of-radioactivity-found-by-japan-environment-ministry-1353301915

Fish with high levels of radioactivity found by Japan Environment Ministry

Posted on: 19 Nov 2012, 10:41 AM

Tokyo: A study by Japan's environment ministry has found the presence of fish with high levels of radioactive cesium in rivers and reservoirs in Fukushima, the province where the nuclear disaster at a power plant took place, a news agency said.

Among the specimens with the highest levels of the contaminant was a mountain trout with 11,400 becquerel of cesium per kg, more than 100 times the limit of 100 becquerel per kg established in Japan.