A Japanese electric utility holding company, which operated the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, says a fish caught near the disaster-hit site in May contained levels of radioactive cesium that are 180 times Japan’s safety limit.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc (Tepco) said on Monday that black rockfish living near drainage outlets at the nuclear plant which was caught on May 18 had 18,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium-137, compared with the legal maximum level of 100 becquerels per kilogram.
The company also confirmed that a total of 44 fish with cesium levels above 100 becquerels per kg have been found in the Fukushima plant port between May 2022 and May 2023, with 90 percent of those caught in or near the inner breakwater.
It said rainwater from the areas around reactors one, two and three, which melted down during the 2011 disaster, flows into the inner breakwater where the rockfish was caught in May.
Poster Comment:
America allows more radioactivity in food than any nation in the industrial world. 1,200 becquerels per kilogram. (Confirmed by Google.)