Radiation in tunnel water at Japan plant 10,000 times over normal

TOKYO, March 31 | Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:08am EDT

TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) - Radiation in water of an underground tunnel outside a turbine building of No.2 reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear complex was more than 10,000 times above normal levels in reactors, the plant operator was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying on Thursday.

The operator also found radiation in groundwater near a turbine building of the No.1 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Kyodo added. And an abnormal level of radioactive caesium has been found in beef from the area, it said. (Reporting by Yoko Nishikawa and Kiyoshi Takenaka)

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Markfm wrote:
The Kyodo advisory seems to be talking strictly about radiation 10000x above limit in ground water near #1, nothing about #2.

Mar 31, 2011 11:28am EDT  --  Report as abuse
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