Workers in Fukushima Dai-chi power plant who are in charged in controlling the possible meltdown of the reactors, evacuated last Sunday after Japanese officials reported a gigantic jump in radioactivity levels which is 10 million times the normal in the water inside a reactor.
Base on the figures of Japans Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, the water seeping out of the No. 2 reactor building going to the adjacent turbine contained levels of radioactive iodine 134 which is 10 million times greater than the normal level found in waters used inside the nuclear plant.
According to the statement released last Sunday by the Operator of the stricken plant, the high reading must have been a miscalculation or incorrect reading.
After they have not provided the details on what could have gone wrong with the tests. Spokesperson of Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that “The numbers is not credible…We are very sorry”.
He also added that another test has been conducted by the officials but he did not know when the result will come out.
A measure of more than 1,000 millisieverts an hour has been recorded in the water near the reactor no. 2; this is according to the statement released earlier by the Tokyo Electric. Records shows that this is the highest reading so far in crisis triggered by a m(–foul word(s) removed–)ive earthquake and tsunami last march 11.
The US Environmental Protection agency said that a single dose of 1,000 millisieverts is enough to cause haemorrhaging.
According to the nuclear safety agency, the radioactive iodine in seawater outside the six reactor plant also rose to 1,850 times than the usual level on Sunday, up from 1250 on Saturday.
The 9.0 magnitude earthquake that strike Japan 17 days ago and triggered a tsunami has killed over 10,000 people, left hundreds of Japanese citizen homeless and disabled the Fukushima Plant, which gave a scare of possible radiation.
As of now official death toll is already 10,489 while more than 16,620 people are still missing.
