Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant

March 16, 2013 by legitgov

Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant 16 Mar 2013 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, equivalent to 7,400 times the state-set limit deemed safe for human consumption. The greenling measuring 38 cm in length and weighing 564 grams was caught near a water intake of the four reactor units in the power station’s port on Feb. 21 during the utility’s operation to remove fish from the port. Tepco has installed a net on the sea floor of the port exit in Fukushima Prefecture to make it hard for fish living near the sediments of contaminated soil to go elsewhere. [I'm just so glad Barack Obama was touting nuclear power as part of his 'green energy' plans in Chicago on Friday! Love the drones, too... letting the CIA into our financial records... Oh. And the 'chained CPI' offering. Good thing we have a Democrat in the White House!]