Radiation in water at Japanese nuclear plant 5 million times over the legal limit

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Source: Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant said on Tuesday it had found water with 5 million times the legal limit of radioactivity as it struggles for a fourth week to contain the world's biggest nuclear disaster in quarter of a century.

Underlining the concern over spreading radiation, the government said it was considering imposing radioactivity restrictions on seafood for the first time in the crisis after contaminated fish were found in seas well south of the damaged nuclear reactors.

The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) offered token "condolence" money to those affected in the Fukushima region where the plant is based, the local mayors who came to Tokyo to meet Prime Minister Naoto Kan made clear they expected far more help.

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1. Only 5 mill? What's the fuss? nt

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2. It was up to 7.5 million according to CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/japan.nuclear.reactors/?hpt=T2

Readings from samples taken Saturday in the concrete pit outside the turbine building of the plant's No. 2 reactor -- one of six at the crisis-plagued plant -- had radiation 7.5 million times the legal limits, said an official with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the plant. Newer findings, from Tuesday afternoon, showed a sizable drop to 5 million times the norm.

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3. The pacific

fisheries will be affected. This is an immense disaster.

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5. Hopefully they will stop fishing and the fisheries can recover from overfishing. nt

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6. the fisheries

may not recover from radiation

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7. Perhaps. Some species around Chernobyl proliferated, some did not prosper. nt

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4. And so it continues. It just gets worse by the day as emissions mount. nt

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8. Removal of 60,000 tons of radioactive water eyed at Fukushima plant

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A total of 60,000 tons of radioactive water is believed to be flooding the basement of reactor buildings and underground trenches connected to them at the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, the industry minister said Tuesday, adding that its operator will later remove the liquid obstructing recovery work.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., which runs the Fukushima Daiichi power station, began dumping low-level radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean on Monday as an emergency step to secure room for the storage of more highly contaminated water. The utility known as TEPCO aims to dispose of a total of 11,500 tons of low-level tainted water into the sea by this weekend from the plant on the coast.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110405p2g00m0dm084000c.html