Sunday, March 27, 2011

10 million times norm / Massive iodine-134 level in No. 2 reactor turbine bldg : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

Water collected Saturday from the basement of the turbine building of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant contained radioactivity at 10 million times the concentration normally found in water inside the reactor, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Sunday.

The concentration of radioactive iodine-134 detected in water taken from the basement floor of the turbine building was 2.9 billion becquerels per cubic centimeter, an agency spokesperson said at a Sunday press conference.

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