Workers of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant discovered a highly dangerous level of radiation

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Tuesday, as to the owner of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant a radioactive hot spot that is more dangerous compared to the previous was found by the workers of the plant.

Monday afternoon, Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that the ventilation tower between reactors No. 1 and No. 2 reads a radiation that is 10 000 millisieverts per hour. This result can kill a person which is exposed at approximately 60-minutes. According to the U.S. experts, the radiation will be concentrated on the area during the first day when the operators of the plant let out the reactors that are damaged.

Company spokesman Naoki Tsunoda said that the area has been immediately looped by the Tokyo Electric for the investigation of the cause of the lethal radiation and how it will affect to the recovery work. The company said that the workers who made the discovery were not injured.

Japan’s March 11earthquake was followed by a tsunami and The Fukushima Daiichi plant, located 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo was damaged by the flood.

This incident was the worst nuclear accident since the year 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the three reactors of the plant were damaged and caused the spreading of radioactive particles along the near areas.

Due to the effects of the disaster, Japan considers again its responsibility when it comes to nuclear energy. And Germany announced that they are about to abandon atomic power by the year 2022.

According to a nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan, Gary Was, “As they were venting, either intentionally or unintentionally, the building air was being sent through filters, those filters may have been concentrating radioactive particles into one spot.”

He also said that there is a device that could help identify if the radioactivity was from the reactor waste products or it may be bits of nuclear fuel. The device is the gamma-ray camera. Monday, Tokyo Electric placed a gamma-ray camera on a three-meter (9.75-foot) pole to get images of the hot spot. They expect to that the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi will be fully recovered sometime between the months of October and January.

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