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Wed Feb 8, 2017, 05:35 AM Feb 2017

China urges Japan to explain its Fukushima plan amid reports of lethal levels of radiation

Source: Global Times

China on Monday urged the Japanese government to give a responsible explanation of how it will offset the impact of the Fukushima nuclear leakage amid reports the radiation at one Fukushima reactor has reached levels that are reportedly able to kill humans within seconds.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a press briefing on Monday that China has been closely watching the repercussions of the Fukushima nuclear accident and the ministry had issued the relevant safety alerts.

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Lu added that this is the Japanese government's obligation to not only the Japanese people, but also to people from the rest of the world, its neighbors included.

The radiation level in the containment vessel of Reactor 2 at the crippled Fukushima power plant has reached a maximum of 530 sieverts per hour, the highest since the triple core meltdown in March 2011, The Japan Times reported on Friday, citing Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. (Tepco).

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Read more: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1031742.shtml

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China urges Japan to explain its Fukushima plan amid reports of lethal levels of radiation (Original Post) bananas Feb 2017 OP
The Fukushima nuclear clusterf*ck has never really ended Achilleaze Feb 2017 #1
Oh my. The DU Plutonium Brigade MyNameGoesHere Feb 2017 #2
Hans Blix, you have a call on line two. TheBlackAdder Feb 2017 #3

Achilleaze

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1. The Fukushima nuclear clusterf*ck has never really ended
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 06:59 AM
Feb 2017

sad

Corporations and governments need to finally wake the f*ck up as they continue to create poison hell in the places where we live, our planet.

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