Tepco Says Fukushima Radiation 'Significantly' Undercounted

[bananas]

Source: Bloomberg

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is re-analyzing 164 water samples collected last year at the wrecked Fukushima atomic plant because previous readings “significantly undercounted” radiation levels.

The utility known as Tepco said the levels were undercounted due to errors in its testing of beta radiation, which includes strontium-90, an isotope linked to bone cancer. None of the samples were taken from seawater, the company said today in an e-mailed statement.

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Shinji Kinjo, leader of a disaster task force at Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, said his office hadn’t been aware of the measurement errors. The regulator’s oversight of the utility is based on Tepco’s measurements, he added.

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Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-25/tepco-says-fukushima-radiation-significantly-undercounted.html

[JDPriestly]

1. Greg Palast's book, Vulture's Picnic, has a good deal of research on the nuclear power industry

that explains much about the Fukushima disaster. I recommend reading that book.

[arcane1]

5. He did a great job of tying several different industries together in that book.

I think it might be worth a revisit from me

[Berlum]

2. Thanks a Big Fat Mutant Pantload, Tepco (R - Nippon Style)

[The Wizard]

3. On the upside

Pacific seafood is already cooked.

[They_Live]

4. "So, again, we lied to you previously,

but you can absolutely trust what we are telling you now."

[kristopher]

6. +1

[Earth_First]

7. That's impossible!

There are members right here at DU that state it is hyperbole to suggest the effects of the disaster are roundly underreported...