{"id":6549,"date":"2020-11-07T12:57:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6549"},"modified":"2020-11-07T12:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:57:32","slug":"radiation-levels-in-seawater-near-fukushima-spike-to-two-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6549","title":{"rendered":"Radiation Levels in Seawater Near Fukushima Spike to Two-Year High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<p>In another sign of the ongoing crisis at Fukushima, radiation levels in seawater next to the plant spiked to a two-year high, TEPCO admitted on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The plant operator said that levels of radioactive Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 measured in water samples on Wednesday were 13 times higher than levels measured the day before.<\/p>\n<p>The latest water samples also have &#8220;high density of tritium and strontium,&#8221; a TEPCO spokesman told Spain&#8217;s <em>Efe<\/em> news. Nuclear expert Dr. Arjun Makhijani previously warned that the strontium being released from the disaster-stricken plant warranted particular concern because it &#8220;much more dangerous&#8221; than the cesium being released.<\/p>\n<p>Agence France-Presse reports that<\/p>\n<div   >\n<div  >\n<p>SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This summer, officials with Japan&#8217;s Nuclear Regulation Authority revealed that they &#8220;strongly suspected&#8221; contamination of the sea had been going on for two years.<\/p>\n<p>TEPCO blamed Wednesday&#8217;s surge in radioactivity on construction work near the plant&#8217;s No. 2 building.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, workers at the plant were doused with radioactive water when they mistakenly detached a pipe connected to a desalination system, the second mishap in a week when a worker at Fukushima accidentally turned off power to pumps for a water cooling system.<\/p>\n<p>As mishap after mishap continues, anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman has written that we &#8220;know all too well at Fukushima is that the world&#8217;s worst atomic catastrophe is very far from over.\u00a0 The only thing predictable is that worse news will come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p >___________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.jerstores.com\/new-zealand-rugby\/New-Zealand-Chiefs' title='new zealand chiefs rugby jersey'>new zealand chiefs rugby jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another sign of the ongoing crisis at Fukushima, radiation levels in seawater next to the plant spiked to a two-year high, TEPCO admitted on Thursday. The plant operator said that levels of radioactive Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 measured in water samples on Wednesday were 13 times higher than levels measured the day before. The latest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}