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Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:41 AM
PDT
Debris
removal operations being carried out at the Unit 3 reactor at the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant are being blamed for large releases of radiation
into the environment.
TEPCO has announced that they
estimate some 1.1 trillion becquerels of radiation was released during debris
cleanup operations at the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 reactor. According
to TEPCO’s estimates the removal work generated 280 billion becquerel per hour
releases.
Some of the radioactive cesium
which was released during the debris removal operations was found over 12
miles away in Minami Soma rice fields.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant is
still estimated to be releasing 10 million becquerels per hour of radioactive
materials.
The debris cleanup operations
at the Unit 3 reactor released more radiation into the environment then will
be released from the plant in the next 12.5 years at the estimated 10,000,000
becquerel per hour leak rate.
TEPCO officials stressed that
the precise amount of radioactive materials that had escaped during the
debris removal operations is still unknown.
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