Tokyo is contaminated as the worst place in Chernobyl | Fukushima Diary

Tokyo is contaminated as the worst place in Chernobyl | Fukushima Diary

Following up this article..23,300 Bq/Kg of cesium from 4km of filter plant

The contamination level of Mizumoto Park turned out to be the same level of “off-limits zone” in Chernobyl.
The contamination level of the park was 23,300 Bq/Kg.
According to Nuclear Safety Commission, it is converted to be 1.4 ~1.5 million Bq/m2.

In Chernobyl, if the area is more contaminated than 1.48 million Bq/m2, it was labelled as off-limits zone, which was the worst level of the pollution.
Because cesium doesn’t choose Mizumoto park intentionally, at least some parts are contaminated as the worst area of Chernobyl.

Inside Fukushima – in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Inside Fukushima – in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Inside Fukushima – in pictures

Journalists and photographers are given access to the site of the nuclear plant where three reactors suffered meltdown after the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March last year

Press watches as gov’t dumps radioactive waste into Tokyo Bay « ENENews.com

Press watches as gov’t dumps radioactive waste into Tokyo Bay « ENENews.com

Tokyo on Feb. 2 invited reporters to see how ash from incinerated sludge — including some contaminated with radioactive substances — is shipped from a sewage plant to be buried at a disposal site outside a breakwater in Tokyo Bay. [...]

Radioactive cesium levels in the ash are apparently far below national standards at 1,000 to 2,000 becquerels per kilogram. [...]

A total of about 2,600 tons of incinerated sludge are held at six other sewage plants in the Tama region, and the metropolitan government will [...] move the ash to the disposal site.

Prison Planet.com » New radioactive leak from Fukushima reactor

Prison Planet.com » New radioactive leak from Fukushima reactor

New Zealand Herald
February 2, 2012

Some 7.71 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant but it has not flowed outside the reactor building, Kyodo News said, quoting the plant’s operator.

Tokyo Electric Power Co said the leak occurred in the No 4 reactor after a pipe connected to the reactor dropped off, the news agency reported.

The leak was discovered on Tuesday night and was stopped shortly afterwards.

The Fukushima Daiichi plant was crippled by meltdowns and explosions caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March last year.

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