Fukushima radiation can kill in 20 minutes

Radiation levels in the outdoors in the area near the stricken Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima area have risen so much that can kill a person in 20 minutes. The operating company of the plant, Tepco , posted a record radiation near the steel pipe connecting the reactor buildings with vent pipe 120 feet high and located serving outside to avoid heating of the nuclear fuel rods . Us radiation measured at eight points around the pipe : the two highest rates reached 15 and 25 sieverts per hour. This is the highest level ever recorded radiation : earlier, Tepco reported of 10 sieverts per hour in the pipeline. Today a total of 400 tons of radioactive water produced during the cleanup at the site daily and enter the Pacific Ocean. Engineers repeatedly admitted failure purification system that uses radioactive water in the plant.

• 2013-12-09T16:12:38+00:00
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