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Radioactive material has been detected in seawater around Japan's Fukushima plant, with concentration levels 240 times higher than safety limits. Scientists warn that the element, strontium, is highly dangerous to humans as it can accumulate in bones and possibly cause cancer.

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6/9/2011 -- Radiation Test -- Tremonton, Utah -- 69.9 CPM

Conversion chart for CPM to mSv/h is here:

http://www.mcgill.ca/ehs/radiation/basics/meter/

This measurement was made on June 8, 2011 at approx. 1230 pm MST. It indicates " HIGH moderate levels" of radiation. Alert level is considered anything over 100CPM by the radiation network ...

http://www.radiationnetwork.com

Radiation background measurement, taken over the course of 10 minutes was 69.9 CPM .

Total 10 minute count = 699 = 69.9 CPM
Location: Tremonton, Utah
Coordinates : 41 43 09 N , 112 13 44 W
Elevation : 4452 feet
Measurement taken: ten mintue long CPM measurement using the "inspector alert" nuclear radiation monitor (geiger counter)
from the inspector alert geiger counter manual:

Japan's radiation fallout 'a monster you can't see'

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Robert Bazell writes:
For more than two weeks following the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear accident that struck Japan in March, I reported  on Fukushima every day from Tokyo.  Now, nearly three months later, I’ve been able to actually go there – not to the nuclear plant, but as close as 12 miles away, to the Fukushima Prefecture that surrounds the crippled reactors and gives them their name.
My first impression upon arriving was of the beauty of the place: Rice paddies line the slopes, and traditional Japanese houses sit on the hillsides where rivers and waterfalls flow. These forests rival California’s Big Sur for their grand display of nature’s serenity.
The enormous human misery inflicted by the radiation leak forms my second strongest impression.  Much of my reporting in March made an effort to calm the panic as foreign workers and some Japanese fled Tokyo, 150 miles away.  I don't regret any of that, but as one gets closer to the reactor site, it's easy to see how much human damage a radiation leak can cause.  As one engineer told me, “When nuclear reactors fail, they REALLY fail.”

6 more workers may exceed Japan's radiation limit

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Six more workers at Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant may have exceeded the radiation exposure limit, bringing the total to eight, the government said Monday. The health and labor ministry released the preliminary results of tests on how much ...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43376720

NRC chief in hot seat for scrapping work on dump

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whether the stored radioactive waste would spoil groundwater in 10,000 years and would expose people to unsafe amounts of radiation for a million years. After fighting Jaczko for its release, congressional aides who reviewed a draft of the analysis say it ...



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Radiation near Japan reactors too high for workers

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TOKYO – A pair of thin robots on treads sent to explore buildings inside Japan's crippled nuclear reactor came back Monday with disheartening news: Radiation levels are far too high for repair crews to go inside.
Nevertheless, officials remained hopeful they can stick to their freshly minted "roadmap" for cleaning up the radiation leak and stabilizing the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant by year's end so they can begin returning tens of thousands of evacuees to their homes.
"Even I had expected high radioactivity in those areas. I'm sure (plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.) and other experts have factored in those figures when they compiled the roadmap," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said.
Officials said Monday that radiation had spiked in a water tank in Unit 2 and contaminated water was discovered in other areas of the plant. They also described in detail for the first time the damage to fuel in three troubled reactors, saying pellets had melted.
That damage — sometimes referred to as a partial meltdown — had already been widely assumed, but the confirmation, along with the continued release of radiation from other areas, serves to underscore how difficult and how long the cleanup process will be. In fact, government officials themselves have acknowledged that there are still many setbacks that could crop up to slow down their timeline.
Angry at the slow response to the nuclear crisis and to the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that caused it, lawmakers tore into Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
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Japan on Monday expanded the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

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A magnitude 6.6 tremor shook buildings in Tokyo and a wide swathe of eastern Japan on Monday evening, killing one man, knocking out power to 220,000 households and causing a brief halt to water pumping to cool three damaged nuclear reactors.
The epicentre of quake, the biggest of several sizable aftershocks on Monday, was 56 miles east of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex at the centre of the crisis.
The biggest tremor forced engineers to postpone plans to remove highly contaminated water from one reactor, but nuclear safety officials said work had resumed by nightfall.
The government announced earlier that because of accumulated radiation contamination, it would encourage people to leave certain areas beyond its 12-mile exclusion zone around the plant.
Children, pregnant women, and hospitalised patients should stay out of some areas 12-19 miles from the nuclear complex, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.

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Blast at Japan nuke plant; thousands missing

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