Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Records shattered’ at Fukushima — Radiation levels surge after typhoon — Tepco “doesn’t know why” th [View all]FBaggins
(28,650 posts)So you're going to compare readings taken in a well right next to the reactors to readings taken many miles away by private individuals? Why not look at the readings from inside the containment (many many times higher)? Or just look at the readings from around the plant in March 2011?
Of course it's going to be higher. That's not at all the same thing as what is implies in the OP (that levels in general are rising - when just the opposite is happening). Radioactive material flushing from one part of the plant to another is not "making a serious turn for the worst".
Thousands of readings are released all the time - and of course they fluctuate. It's intentionally dishonest for enenews to cherrypick one that's gone up and imply that the reactors are released even higher levels of radiation. Just read some of the nutty responses to those types of threads and you'll see that the lunatic fringe eats it up... they think something going on inside the reactors is getting worse (causing radiation to increase overall). They would never do the same thing with the vast bulk of the readings that naturally continue to decline.