Revealed: TEPCO hid dangerous Fukushima radiation levels for months | Conspiracy Wire

Revealed: TEPCO hid dangerous Fukushima radiation levels for months | Conspiracy Wire

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) is again in the midst of
controversy for failing to timely report on record radiation levels at
the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. It is now blasted for holding back
strontium measurements since September.


TEPCO on Wednesday revealed that it detected 5 million becquerels per
liter of radioactive Strontium-90 in a groundwater sample taken some 25
meters from the ocean as early as last September, Reuters reports. The
legal limit for releasing strontium into the ocean is just 30 becquerels
per liter.


Although the reading was alarmingly five times the levels taken at the
same spot two months prior to that, TEPCO decided not to immediately
report it to the country’s nuclear watchdog. That is despite
Strontium-90 being considered twice as harmful to people as Cesium-137,
which was also released in large quantities during the meltdowns at the
Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011 caused by powerful earthquake and
tsunami.


According to a TEPCO spokesman cited by Reuters, the decision was due to
“uncertainty about the reliability and accuracy of the September
strontium reading,” which prompted the plant’s operator to reexamine the
data.