Nuclear Safety Agency of Japan has announced that it has detected a radioactive iodine concentration 1,250 times the legal limit in marine waters near the nuclear plant in Fukushima (northeast). In a press conference, a spokesman for the agency explained that these levels were detected in the early hours of Saturday in seawater samples collected near the nuclear plant, which yesterday radioactive iodine concentration was 140 times exceeding the limit.
The level detected today implies that if an adult drank a pint of this water, would receive a radioactivity of 1 millisievert, explained the spokesman.
The news from Tokyo, however, remain reassuring for the public. The radioactivity in drinking water continued for a third day today at safe levels for consumption even by infants, the government said Japan's metropolitan capital. Measurements in Kanamachi treatment plant, which supplies the central and west of the city, today found 34 Bq of radioactive iodine per kilo, well below the 210 Bq per kilo on Wednesday announced in the same place. The level of the last four days has prompted authorities to ask Tokyoites not supplied tap water to infants under one year, but a day later Radioactive iodine concentration had dropped to 79 becquerel per kilo.
Despite appeals for calm from the government, the radioactivity carried notices this week that Tokyo residents largely depleted stocks of mineral water from the city and asked authorities to bottling companies increased production. In addition, municipal officials handed out 240,000 bottles of 550 milliliters to the families of some 80,000 babies in Tokyo and five neighboring cities.
fresh water cooling
The nuclear power plant operators Fukushima efforts continue on Saturday to restore the cooling system of reactors, damaged by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, northeastern Japan.
On Friday it found high levels of radioactivity in water accumulated in various parts of the plant, which forced the hospitalization of two operators and prevented further work aimed to activate the water pumps. The company now weighing how to remove the contaminated water was detected in the turbine room of several reactors.
Meanwhile, continuing the injection of water from trucks to avoid overheating: Thursday, Friday, began to pour fresh water on Units 1 and 3, instead of sea water to prevent salt crystal block valves or pipes.
today will do the same with the reactor 2, which is also expected to return part of the electricity in the control room, which has already been achieved in reactors 1 and 3. The latter is considered the most dangerous because it is the only uranium also contains plutonium. New
death toll
The victims in the country continue to rise. The latest official figures provided by Japanese police rises to 10,151 people died, while 17,053 others are missing. also More than 240,000 people in 1,900 refugees still evacuation centers after the disaster, which is the worst crisis in Japan since World War II. There are at least 18,000 homes destroyed and more than 130,000 buildings damaged, especially the coastal areas of northeastern Japan, where temperatures below zero are recorded these days makes the situation of the victims.
According to official figures, in Miyagi were 6,097 dead, 3,092 Iwate and Fukushima 904, while the missing number in the thousands in these three provinces, the most devastated by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
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