Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/tokyo-water-radiation-falls-to-zero-for-first-time-since-crisis.html

By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Michio Nakayama - Apr 27, 2011 4:14 AM CT

Radiation readings at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi station rose to the highest since an earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems, impeding efforts to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Two robots sent into the reactor No. 1 building at the plant yesterday took readings as high as 1,120 millisierverts of radiation per hour, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at Tokyo Electric Power Co., said today. That’s more than four times the annual dose permitted to nuclear workers at the stricken plant.

[franzia99]

1. K & R

[jpak]

2. But the Happy Talkers have told us radiation releases were declining

I guess they were just shuckin' us

yup

[Yo_Mama]

3. They don't know what they were, though

Because levels inside the reactor weren't tested until just recently.

I'm guessing this means TEPCO's current mitigation plans have run into a major roadblock!