Title: Record radiation readings near Fukushima contaminated water tanks
Source: Reuters
Authors: Aaron Sheldrick and Mari Saito (Editing by Paul Tait and Ian Geoghegan)
Date: Sept. 4, 2013
Record radiation readings near Fukushima contaminated water tanks
Radiation readings around tanks holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have spiked […]
The rising radiation levels and leaks at the plant have prompted international alarm […]
Readings just above the ground near a set of tanks at the plant showed radiation as high as 2,200 millisieverts (mSv), the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said on Wednesday […]
“The government has finally said they will be involved in this problem but they are still not going to be fully involved in the decommission,” [Hiroaki Koide, Assistant Professor at Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute] said. “It is too little, too late.” […]
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