[Reactor3 got worse than last year] 5 Sv/h on the first floor of reactor3, “3.6 times worse than last year”

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On 11/27/2012, Tepco conducted robot survey on the first floor of reactor3 building. [Link]

The purpose was to investigate the pipe for contaminated air from the turbin building, the pipe is already damaged.

The result shows there was no additional damage on the pipe but the radiation level increased at 5 of 8 locations, the highest reading was 4.78 Sv/h, which increased from 1.3 Sv/h since 11/14/2011. 

It reaches the fatal dose within two hours.

It was 8mSv/h at the entrance of the building.

Tepco is now researching the cause of having increased the radiation level drastically since last year.

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