I'm just curious if anyone else thinks the media, and the japanese and american governments are downplaying the radiation threat from fukushima? Here's one report that says the radiation in the water near the plant is over 3000 times the legal limit. Another report I recently read said one of the cores melted through the concrete containment vessels. Tokyo water is now unsafe for infants to drink due to radiation.
I'm not sure if the amount of radiation already released is a threat to the US, but I feel like we aren't getting the whole story. Also the bigger problem is that there doesn't seem like there's an end in sight. They aren't getting the reactors under control and the international community isn't responding at all.
Typically I'm not for the US providing aid to other countries in anyway, but I feel this is an international crisis and needs to be treated as such. The effects of radiation do not go away anytime soon.
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FUKUSHIMA: Record-High Levels Of Radioactive Iodine Detected In The Ocean
Radioactive iodine at a concentration of 3,355 times the legal limit was identified in a seawater sample near the plant, Japan's nuclear safety agency said Wednesday. This is the highest contamination level yet.
Agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama said the exact cause of the contamination was unknown, according to Kyodo.
The government maintains that the most-toxic water has been contained in trenches and that it has not seeped into seawater or groundwater.
Meanwhile Tokyo Electric are pouring more seawater onto the reactors to cool them, thus creating new contaminated water, which will have to be contained and stored.
In another sign things are getting worse, Tokyo Electric stock plunged another 20% last night.
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