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High Radiation levels, 530 sieverts an hour, have been recorded inside the containment vessel
of reactor No 2, inside a the damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station
that suffered a triple meltdown when the plant was crippled by a huge tsunami that struck the
north-east coast of Japan in March 2011.
Atmospheric readings this high were expected in locations that Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) was only
able to access recently. The reading became evident as workers were getting closer to the melted fuel in
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The presence of dangerously high radiation complicates- to nearly impossible- efforts to safely dismantle
the plant- Decommissioning the plant is expected to take about four decades.
The firm said radiation was not leaking outside the reactor, adding that the robot would still prove useful
since it would move from one spot to the other and encounter radiation of varying levels.
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Tepco and its network of partner companies at Fukushima Daiichi have yet to identify the location and
condition of melted fuel in the three most seriously damaged reactors. Removing it safely represents a
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challenge unprecedented in the history of nuclear power.
Quantities of melted fuel are believed to have accumulated at the bottom of the damaged reactors
containment vessels, but dangerously high radiation has prevented engineers from accurately gauging
the state of the fuel deposits. Earlier this week, the utility released images of dark lumps found beneath
reactor #2 that it believes could be melted uranium fuel rods, the first such discovery since the disaster.
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ing the surrounding area, as well as paying compensation and storing radioactive waste, had risen to Dance Studio
21.5tn yen (150bn), nearly double an estimate released in 2013. Hypnotherapy
> For the first time, seaborne radiation from Japans Fukushima nuclear disaster has Watershed Restoration
been detected on the West Coast of the United States. Web Design
Cesium-134, the so-called fingerprint of Fukushima, was measured in seawater samples taken from Til- Solar Supply
lamook Bay and Gold Beach in Oregon, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are
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Because of its short half-life, cesium-134 can only have come from Fukushima. Also for the first time,
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>the Fukushima InFORM project, led by University of Victoria chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen
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