More Bad News From Fukushima · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 1, 2013 @01:31AM from the from-bad-to-worse dept.

PuceBaboon writes "Both Reuters and the BBC are carrying the story of an increase in radiation levels reported by Tepco for contaminated water leaking from storage tanks on site. When this leak was discovered almost two weeks ago, Tepco reported that the radiation level was 100-millisieverts. It now transpires that 100-millisieverts was the highest reading that the measuring equipment in use was capable of displaying. The latest readings (with upgraded equipment) are registering 1800-millisieverts which, according to both news sources, could prove fatal to anyone exposed to it for four hours. Coincidentally (and somewhat ironically), today is earthquake disaster prevention day in Japan, with safety drills taking place nationwide."

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Waiting on all the Armchair experts of slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-01 01:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

to keep telling us how this is nothing to worry about, as they have been since day 1 of this disaster. How many bananas do the salmon need to eat now?