Japanese authorities have detected a concentration of a radioactive substance 1,600 times higher than normal in soil at a village, 40 kilometers away from the troubled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
The disaster task force in Fukushima composed of the central and local governments surveyed radioactive substances in soil about 5 centimeters below the surface at 6 locations around the plant from last Friday through Tuesday.
The results announced on Wednesday show that 163,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-137 per kilogram of soil has been detected in Iitate Village, about 40 kilometers northwest of the plant.
Gakushuin University Professor Yasuyuki Muramatsu, an expert on radiation in the environment, says that normal levels of radioactive cesium-137 in soil are around 100 becquerels at most. The professor says he was surprised at the extremely high reading, which is 1,630 times higher than normal levels.
Very bad news. Water in Tokyo is contaminated as well.
March 23, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Everybody knew this was going to be the end result and that the Japanese government was lying, but our friendly, neighborhood MSM didn’t say a thing…
It’s too late now. Japan is FUBAR. Even the experts say get the hell out of there…
March 23, 2011 at 6:19 pm
This is just a nightmare that even Stephen King couldn’t dream up.