Radiation from nuclear plant millions times over limit

Workers try to stop the spread of radiation on the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi.The levels of emissions hot offshore deleted, but are often had the legal LimitWater in a pit, 7.5 million times on the standard radiation is a fish in the sea leaking is radiation and radiation in the seafood are now recognized RegulatedAn are official is "sorry", to be flip 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the sea

Tokyo (CNN) --japanische utility and Government authorities suffered fresh setbacks Tuesday detecting radiation in fish and news, that water gushing from the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi in the Pacific radiation had more than a million times on the border and regulatory levels.

Readings of samples Saturday in the concrete pit outside the building the plant No.2 turbine reactor-one of six at the site of crisis geplagten-- radiation said 7.5 million times the legal limits, an official with the Tokyo electric power company, which runs the plant. Newer findings, showed 5 million times from Tuesday afternoon, a considerable decrease in the standard.

The company said also Tuesday that reduces the levels of emissions strongly could have a few dozen metres from the leak, with their assessment that the spill is a minimal effect on Sealife. But even in these spots, the levels of emissions, several hundred - thousand times the permitted remained.

Pointed out the problem, that getting a handle on how to minimize the radiation in the Pacific Ocean is the new, primary Battlefront in the week long crisis at the nuclear plant.

At about the same time as the said message Tokyo Electric Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano the presence of radioactive iodine "in a pattern of fresh fish" authorities, to regulate the radiation on seafood for the first time invited.

While fishing within 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi was banned, it had no restrictions on seafood, was for some vegetables and milk from specific locales. Now, apply the same radiation standards, for vegetables apply ocean products as well.

"The" provisional swallowed limit, synonymous with vegetables and applied to fish and shellfish, will take effect immediately, "said the Minister."

Tuesday, Edano excused earlier for the decision, deliberately dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water in the sea-all part of the effort to the river of the more toxic liquid discovered before noise from outside the unit No. 2 days put an end to areas.

The process of the designation of contaminated water in the plant water treatment facility and some of its nuclear reactors began Monday and five days, a Tokyo Electric of official said.

"The water contains high levels of radiation," said Edano of the liquid dumped in the Pacific Ocean. "We are sorry for this decision, which we have to make."

The most contaminated batches of this water comes from outside of the reactor No. 6, said probably got via groundwater (and no breach in the device itself) officials. It has a concentration of iodine-131, which was 100 times more than the maximum number of tap water, drink the babies, and 10 times more than what would be OK in food.

As a whole is the dump is equivalent to about 3 million gallons, Gary was, nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan.

But Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial Agency, said: "we have decided that unloaded the contaminated water into the sea poses no threat to the great health."

Experts say this is given a fair assessment, the probability that the contamination quickly diluted should, above all, when the tainted material mainly loses iodine-131, half of his radiation every eight days.

"To put this in perspective, keeps 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they go around the Pacific Ocean, full to about five swimming pools, share", said Timothy J?rgensen, Chairman of the Committee for radiation safety at the Georgetown University Medical Center. "So hopefully that quickly churning of the ocean and the streams that will dissipate so that it gets too much you dilute concentrations relatively quickly."

John till, President of South Carolina-based risk assessment Corp., said that he was not expected to see any permanent effects on marine life, even close to the plant. However, he added that officials radiation levels available - which reached oceans as should monitor as seafood, restaurants and markets.

A piece of good news, is reported to Japanese Government, that airborne radiation seems ever will fall to North-Eastern Japan. Quantities of radioactive iodine-131 two measures 15 km or less from the plant showed in between 2 and 3, 7 times of legal standards, with a much longer lasting caesium isotopic below the official limit.

Utility and Government officials have also described conditions in the Fukushima Prefecture Daiichi plant reactors and spent nuclear fuel pool as a generally stable. Exceptions only - such as the new must pump 3-meter-deep water in a drain outside the number increase 5 and 6 units out of fear that it could enter turbine building and short from power for the units close to nuclear fuel cooling systems. But not occurring in the same tempo, or with the same apparent heavy, how obvious weeks was such problems before.

However, the priority is that water stop, directly into the Pacific Ocean a broken concrete through shaft outside the reactor No. 2 was gushing has.

Edano said Monday that the decision, poisoned water from other reactors, and the waste water treatment facility No. 2 was dump "inevitable" to ensure "Safety" of the reactor core.

The idea is the tainted water from all around the No. 2 reactor turbine construction, reduction in so water no longer crashes into the sea off quickly to pumps, said an official of the Japanese nuclear safety. This comes after two failed the problematic anbrechen-- one of plug concrete walls, the other a chemical compound with sawdust and newspaper use mixed.

Reactors No. 1 and no. 3, which have lower levels of the water, must also be drained. Tokyo Electric's plan, that the water to other tanks, including some that are still set up to pump. Water in and around the No. 5 and 6 reactors is dropped directly into the sea, officials said.

A major problem could be that still do not know how got contaminated the bubbling water authorities, where it came from or how to fix potential holes and cracks deep in the reactor complex and nuclear fuel.

Michael Friedlander, a former senior U.S. nuclear engineer, said late Monday that authorities still, some problems related to excess, radioactive water - and the need to outrun - dump as long as they avoid large quantities in fuel to inject cores overheating in reactors and spent fuel pools.

"This is not a one-off thing," said Friedlander dumping radioactive water in the ocean. "This issue of water and water management will torture them until they can get (fully operational) long-term core cooling." CNN's Whitney Hurst, Matt Smith and Kyung LAH and journalist Hiroo SASO contributed to this report.

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Radiation from nuclear plant millions times over limit

Workers try to stop the spread of radiation on the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi.The levels of emissions hot offshore deleted, but are often had the legal LimitWater in a pit, 7.5 million times on the standard radiation is a fish in the sea leaking is radiation and radiation in the seafood are now recognized RegulatedAn are official is "sorry", to be flip 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the sea

Tokyo (CNN) --japanische utility and Government authorities suffered fresh setbacks Tuesday detecting radiation in fish and news, that water gushing from the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi in the Pacific radiation had more than a million times on the border and regulatory levels.

Readings of samples Saturday in the concrete pit outside the building the plant No.2 turbine reactor-one of six at the site of crisis geplagten-- radiation said 7.5 million times the legal limits, an official with the Tokyo electric power company, which runs the plant. Newer findings, showed 5 million times from Tuesday afternoon, a considerable decrease in the standard.

The company said also Tuesday that reduces the levels of emissions strongly could have a few dozen metres from the leak, with their assessment that the spill is a minimal effect on Sealife. But even in these spots, the levels of emissions, several hundred - thousand times the permitted remained.

Pointed out the problem, that getting a handle on how to minimize the radiation in the Pacific Ocean is the new, primary Battlefront in the week long crisis at the nuclear plant.

At about the same time as the said message Tokyo Electric Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano the presence of radioactive iodine "in a pattern of fresh fish" authorities, to regulate the radiation on seafood for the first time invited.

While fishing within 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi was banned, it had no restrictions on seafood, was for some vegetables and milk from specific locales. Now, apply the same radiation standards, for vegetables apply ocean products as well.

"The" provisional swallowed limit, synonymous with vegetables and applied to fish and shellfish, will take effect immediately, "said the Minister."

Tuesday, Edano excused earlier for the decision, deliberately dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water in the sea-all part of the effort to the river of the more toxic liquid discovered before noise from outside the unit No. 2 days put an end to areas.

The process of the designation of contaminated water in the plant water treatment facility and some of its nuclear reactors began Monday and five days, a Tokyo Electric of official said.

"The water contains high levels of radiation," said Edano of the liquid dumped in the Pacific Ocean. "We are sorry for this decision, which we have to make."

The most contaminated batches of this water comes from outside of the reactor No. 6, said probably got via groundwater (and no breach in the device itself) officials. It has a concentration of iodine-131, which was 100 times more than the maximum number of tap water, drink the babies, and 10 times more than what would be OK in food.

As a whole is the dump is equivalent to about 3 million gallons, Gary was, nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan.

But Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial Agency, said: "we have decided that unloaded the contaminated water into the sea poses no threat to the great health."

Experts say this is given a fair assessment, the probability that the contamination quickly diluted should, above all, when the tainted material mainly loses iodine-131, half of his radiation every eight days.

"To put this in perspective, keeps 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they go around the Pacific Ocean, full to about five swimming pools, share", said Timothy J?rgensen, Chairman of the Committee for radiation safety at the Georgetown University Medical Center. "So hopefully that quickly churning of the ocean and the streams that will dissipate so that it gets too much you dilute concentrations relatively quickly."

John till, President of South Carolina-based risk assessment Corp., said that he was not expected to see any permanent effects on marine life, even close to the plant. However, he added that officials radiation levels available - which reached oceans as should monitor as seafood, restaurants and markets.

A piece of good news, is reported to Japanese Government, that airborne radiation seems ever will fall to North-Eastern Japan. Quantities of radioactive iodine-131 two measures 15 km or less from the plant showed in between 2 and 3, 7 times of legal standards, with a much longer lasting caesium isotopic below the official limit.

Utility and Government officials have also described conditions in the Fukushima Prefecture Daiichi plant reactors and spent nuclear fuel pool as a generally stable. Exceptions only - such as the new must pump 3-meter-deep water in a drain outside the number increase 5 and 6 units out of fear that it could enter turbine building and short from power for the units close to nuclear fuel cooling systems. But not occurring in the same tempo, or with the same apparent heavy, how obvious weeks was such problems before.

However, the priority is that water stop, directly into the Pacific Ocean a broken concrete through shaft outside the reactor No. 2 was gushing has.

Edano said Monday that the decision, poisoned water from other reactors, and the waste water treatment facility No. 2 was dump "inevitable" to ensure "Safety" of the reactor core.

The idea is the tainted water from all around the No. 2 reactor turbine construction, reduction in so water no longer crashes into the sea off quickly to pumps, said an official of the Japanese nuclear safety. This comes after two failed the problematic anbrechen-- one of plug concrete walls, the other a chemical compound with sawdust and newspaper use mixed.

Reactors No. 1 and no. 3, which have lower levels of the water, must also be drained. Tokyo Electric's plan, that the water to other tanks, including some that are still set up to pump. Water in and around the No. 5 and 6 reactors is dropped directly into the sea, officials said.

A major problem could be that still do not know how got contaminated the bubbling water authorities, where it came from or how to fix potential holes and cracks deep in the reactor complex and nuclear fuel.

Michael Friedlander, a former senior U.S. nuclear engineer, said late Monday that authorities still, some problems related to excess, radioactive water - and the need to outrun - dump as long as they avoid large quantities in fuel to inject cores overheating in reactors and spent fuel pools.

"This is not a one-off thing," said Friedlander dumping radioactive water in the ocean. "This issue of water and water management will torture them until they can get (fully operational) long-term core cooling." CNN's Whitney Hurst, Matt Smith and Kyung LAH and journalist Hiroo SASO contributed to this report.

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Radiation from nuclear plant millions times over limit

Workers try to stop the spread of radiation on the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi.The levels of emissions hot offshore deleted, but are often had the legal LimitWater in a pit, 7.5 million times on the standard radiation is a fish in the sea leaking is radiation and radiation in the seafood are now recognized RegulatedAn are official is "sorry", to be flip 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the sea

Tokyo (CNN) --japanische utility and Government authorities suffered fresh setbacks Tuesday detecting radiation in fish and news, that water gushing from the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi in the Pacific radiation had more than a million times on the border and regulatory levels.

Readings of samples Saturday in the concrete pit outside the building the plant No.2 turbine reactor-one of six at the site of crisis geplagten-- radiation said 7.5 million times the legal limits, an official with the Tokyo electric power company, which runs the plant. Newer findings, showed 5 million times from Tuesday afternoon, a considerable decrease in the standard.

The company said also Tuesday that reduces the levels of emissions strongly could have a few dozen metres from the leak, with their assessment that the spill is a minimal effect on Sealife. But even in these spots, the levels of emissions, several hundred - thousand times the permitted remained.

Pointed out the problem, that getting a handle on how to minimize the radiation in the Pacific Ocean is the new, primary Battlefront in the week long crisis at the nuclear plant.

At about the same time as the said message Tokyo Electric Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano the presence of radioactive iodine "in a pattern of fresh fish" authorities, to regulate the radiation on seafood for the first time invited.

While fishing within 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi was banned, it had no restrictions on seafood, was for some vegetables and milk from specific locales. Now, apply the same radiation standards, for vegetables apply ocean products as well.

"The" provisional swallowed limit, synonymous with vegetables and applied to fish and shellfish, will take effect immediately, "said the Minister."

Tuesday, Edano excused earlier for the decision, deliberately dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water in the sea-all part of the effort to the river of the more toxic liquid discovered before noise from outside the unit No. 2 days put an end to areas.

The process of the designation of contaminated water in the plant water treatment facility and some of its nuclear reactors began Monday and five days, a Tokyo Electric of official said.

"The water contains high levels of radiation," said Edano of the liquid dumped in the Pacific Ocean. "We are sorry for this decision, which we have to make."

The most contaminated batches of this water comes from outside of the reactor No. 6, said probably got via groundwater (and no breach in the device itself) officials. It has a concentration of iodine-131, which was 100 times more than the maximum number of tap water, drink the babies, and 10 times more than what would be OK in food.

As a whole is the dump is equivalent to about 3 million gallons, Gary was, nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan.

But Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial Agency, said: "we have decided that unloaded the contaminated water into the sea poses no threat to the great health."

Experts say this is given a fair assessment, the probability that the contamination quickly diluted should, above all, when the tainted material mainly loses iodine-131, half of his radiation every eight days.

"To put this in perspective, keeps 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they go around the Pacific Ocean, full to about five swimming pools, share", said Timothy J?rgensen, Chairman of the Committee for radiation safety at the Georgetown University Medical Center. "So hopefully that quickly churning of the ocean and the streams that will dissipate so that it gets too much you dilute concentrations relatively quickly."

John till, President of South Carolina-based risk assessment Corp., said that he was not expected to see any permanent effects on marine life, even close to the plant. However, he added that officials radiation levels available - which reached oceans as should monitor as seafood, restaurants and markets.

A piece of good news, is reported to Japanese Government, that airborne radiation seems ever will fall to North-Eastern Japan. Quantities of radioactive iodine-131 two measures 15 km or less from the plant showed in between 2 and 3, 7 times of legal standards, with a much longer lasting caesium isotopic below the official limit.

Utility and Government officials have also described conditions in the Fukushima Prefecture Daiichi plant reactors and spent nuclear fuel pool as a generally stable. Exceptions only - such as the new must pump 3-meter-deep water in a drain outside the number increase 5 and 6 units out of fear that it could enter turbine building and short from power for the units close to nuclear fuel cooling systems. But not occurring in the same tempo, or with the same apparent heavy, how obvious weeks was such problems before.

However, the priority is that water stop, directly into the Pacific Ocean a broken concrete through shaft outside the reactor No. 2 was gushing has.

Edano said Monday that the decision, poisoned water from other reactors, and the waste water treatment facility No. 2 was dump "inevitable" to ensure "Safety" of the reactor core.

The idea is the tainted water from all around the No. 2 reactor turbine construction, reduction in so water no longer crashes into the sea off quickly to pumps, said an official of the Japanese nuclear safety. This comes after two failed the problematic anbrechen-- one of plug concrete walls, the other a chemical compound with sawdust and newspaper use mixed.

Reactors No. 1 and no. 3, which have lower levels of the water, must also be drained. Tokyo Electric's plan, that the water to other tanks, including some that are still set up to pump. Water in and around the No. 5 and 6 reactors is dropped directly into the sea, officials said.

A major problem could be that still do not know how got contaminated the bubbling water authorities, where it came from or how to fix potential holes and cracks deep in the reactor complex and nuclear fuel.

Michael Friedlander, a former senior U.S. nuclear engineer, said late Monday that authorities still, some problems related to excess, radioactive water - and the need to outrun - dump as long as they avoid large quantities in fuel to inject cores overheating in reactors and spent fuel pools.

"This is not a one-off thing," said Friedlander dumping radioactive water in the ocean. "This issue of water and water management will torture them until they can get (fully operational) long-term core cooling." CNN's Whitney Hurst, Matt Smith and Kyung LAH and journalist Hiroo SASO contributed to this report.

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Japan's Ocean meets radiation 7.5 million times legal limit - Los Angeles Times

A broker leads earthquake and tsunami disaster between fish at the fish market of Hirakata, Osaka in Kita, Japan, trade, for the first time since the March 11. (Toru Yamanaka / AFP/Getty Images / Bongarts / April 5, 2011)The operator of Japan's Fukushima knit nuclear plant said Tuesday, that it radioactive iodine to 7.5 million times of the permitted in sea water sample in the vicinity of the plant had found, and Government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish.

The reading of the iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, said Tokyo Electric Power Co.. Another example taken Monday found on 5 million times of the permitted. The Monday examples were also found contain radioactive caesium in 1.1 million times of the permitted.

The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, although Tepco has said that strongly contaminated water from a mine close to the No. 2 reactor were leaking has. The utility initially believed, that was the leak of a crack, but several attempts, the crack seal has failed.

On Tuesday, the company that leak could come instead from a faulty joint said the pit is a tube, so that radioactive water in a layer of gravel under penetrate. The utility said that this would fit "liquid glass" into gravel in an effort to stop more leakage.

In the meantime further Tepco share, what it than water with low radiation into the sea to make room in on-site storage tanks for more highly contaminated water. In all the company said it planned, but on Tuesday morning, it had 11,500 tons of water, less than 25% of that amount will appear.

Although the Government which authorized release of 11,500 tons and said that radiation would quickly diluted and dispersed into the ocean, fish with high readings of iodine are found.

On Monday officials recognized that more than 4,000 Bequerels iodine-131 / kg in a kind of fish called a sand eels caught less than three miles off the coast of the city Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. The juveniles contained also 447 Bequerels of caesium-137, as problematic regarded as iodine-131, because it has a much longer half-life.

On Tuesday, chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that the Government was establishing a standard of 2,000 Bequerels of iodine Atom per kilogram fish, allows the same level in vegetables. Previously, the Government had no specific level for fish. An another haul of the eels with 526 Bequerels of cesium was detected Tuesday, about the standard of 500 Bequerels per kilogram.

Fishing of sand removed lances. Local fishermen calls Tepco to stop the release of radioactive water into the sea and demanded that the company they compensate for their losses.

Fishing has in the close to been the plant banned, and the vast majority of fishing activities in the region has stopped tsunami and earthquake damage to boats and port on 11 March was. However, some fishermen are making catches, only to a few buyers due to concerns about the radiation to be found.

It is not clear, which could provide the Fischer Tepco, but has the company Tuesday saying that it "condolence payments" residents to local amounting to 180 million yen ($ 2 million) had to evacuate their homes due to the radiation of the Fukushima plant had offered. A city, refused payment.

The company has yet to decide as residents in the vicinity of the facility for damage, make up for it would, while financial analysts say, the claims could be in the tens of billions of dollars. TEPCO's executive Vice President said on hinges decision on damages Takashi Fujimoto of the company how much the Government are parts of the load.

Edano asked the company to speed up that his decisions on compensation.

For now the company has offered 20 million yen ($240,000) for each 10 villages, towns and cities within 12 miles of the plant give Fujimoto said.

"We hope that they will find it useful for now," he said.

Namie, a city of about 6 miles north of the plant, refused to take the money 20,600. city official Kosei Negishi said, that he and other government officials from a makeshift Office in nihonmatsu, Fukushima city, somewhere else in Fukushima Prefecture, worked and that she faced more pressing issues.

"The coastal areas of Namie hard hit we were by the earthquake and the tsunami but due to the radiation and the evacuation had order still no chance to the 200 people perform a search, are missing," said Negishi. "Why should we use our resources less than 1,000 yen ($12) to everyone, residents spent?"

Tokyo electric power Fujimoto recognised, that was a "gap" in the views of businesses and Namie officials.

TEPCO's shares fell to an all-time low Tuesday covered by the maximum daily trading Grenze--about 18%--362 yen, below the previous record low of 393 Yen in 1951 reached. Share of the company has 80% of their Wertes--nearly 1.1 trillion Yen--since the Quake and tsunami, lost after the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Fujimoto said "We share prices decline very seriously," reporters.

Fujimoto said the company's annual earnings report, which was originally scheduled for April 28, would be moved, but he declined it, all other information.

Julie.Makinen@LATimes.com

Hall is a special correspondent.

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