Antinuclear

Tepco admits it reported Fukushima radiation levels much too low

Fukushima radiation data is wildly wrong, management apologizes Subodh Varma,TNN | Feb 10, 2014, NEW DELHI: Tepco, the utility company that is managing the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan said that there were mistakes in the radiation levels they recorded last year. According to Japanese media,

Tepco announced last week that what was recorded as 900,000 becquerels per liter of deadly beta radiation from a test-well last July was wrong and the actual level should read 5 million becq per liter. That’s five times more than what they announced previously, and nearly 170,000 times more than the permissible level. ……………http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Fukushima-radiation-data-is-wildly-wrong-management-apologizes/articleshow/30163944.cms

February 11, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized