During last twelvemonth ’s nuclear disaster , the deadly radiation inside Fukushima 1 became one with the surrounding environmentcontaminating everything . Things are n’t getting any better . Record quantities of the deadly radioactive isotope cesium-137 have just beendiscoveredin the fishery around Fukushima .
https://gizmodo.com/fukushimas-radiation-now-spreading-in-japanese-meat-5820542
We ’ve known about theuntold and most inconceivable quantitiesof cesium-137 released into the surrounding ecosystem for over a year . But these numbersreported by the AFPare still shocking :
https://gizmodo.com/fukushima-may-have-dumped-twice-as-much-radiation-as-pr-5854089
The fishes , captured 20 klick ( 12.5 miles ) off the flora on August 1 , register 25,800 becquerels of atomic number 55 per kilo , Tokyo Electric Power Co. ( TEPCO ) said — 258 metre the degree the government deem safe for wasting disease . The previous record in fish and shellfish off Fukushima was 18,700 becquerels per kilo detected in cherry salmons , according to the politics ’s Fisheries Agency .
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