Reply #4: Tokyo Electric Power Co. said test results may be incorrect [View All]

[jtuck004]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-31/japan-reviewing-water-tests-showing-iodine-at-10-000-times-limit.html

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said test results may be incorrect that detected radioactive iodine about 10,000 times the safety limit in underground water at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.

Tokyo Electric found the radioactive water near the No. 1 reactor turbine building while performing tests recommended by Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission, according to a statement yesterday. The company later said those results and others may be wrong and it will re-examine the data.

Tokyo Electric reported radiation in water outside one of the Fukushima reactors this week that exceeded 1 sievert an hour...
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That's hot for water. Seems like that's one of those things you would be pretty sure about, maybe even test a time or two b4 reporting? But now that you have, people don't want to hear those numbers?

One source is dated April 1 in Kyodo, the other March 31 but probably US time, seems like same story.