Extremely high tritium level found in water in pit at Fukushima plant
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said on July 28 that an extremely high level of radioactive tritium has been detected in a pool of water that has accumulated in a pit in the compound of its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
The level stood at 8.7 million becquerels per liter of water, which was 145 times that of the permissible level stipulated under the law, the plant operator said.
Radioactive water apparently flowed into the pit, located on the ocean side of the turbine building for the No. 2 reactor, immediately following the March 2011 nuclear accident and has remained there, the utility said.
On June 26, the Nuclear Regulation Authority expressed concerns that high tritium levels detected in the sea near the plant were a result of contaminated water leaking from the site.
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None could have predicted this, NONE I tell ya.
I've noticed the "experts" have been missing from these threads. I wonder why?
I understand that they're all at Fukushima volunteering to contain the reactors.