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Monday, December 5, 2011

Fukushima Spill

It looks like 45 tons of radioactive water spilled inside some sort of water purification facility at Fukushima.  Perhaps 300 liters escaped the building.  The article is nice in that it actually provides some radiation data, but it's not clear at what height the readings were actually taken.  Even if taken close to ground level, that's some pretty contaminated water!

This article includes an embedded video and states that the estimated radioactivity levels were 130,000 Bq/cm3 of strontium (I assume Sr-90).

This article states that 220 tons of water may have escaped the building, big difference from the first article.

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