Record Levels Of Radioactive Material Detected At Fukushima — 600,000 Bq/Liter In Groundwater — Official: May Be Seeping From Reactors Into Ocean

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Published: July 8th, 2013 at 5:20 pm ET

By ENENews

he Japan Times: Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday that 600,000 becquerels per liter of tritium has been detected in groundwater at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. It’s the first time such a high level of tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, has been measured in the plant’s groundwater, Tepco said [...] A Nuclear Regulation Authority official recently said contaminated groundwater from the plant, which is being fed cooling water from outside, may be seeping into the ocean and that the matter must be addressed carefully because data is limited.

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