Detection of ultra-high-level contaminated fish near Fukushima 1

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on March 15 said the company measured a record radioactive level of 740,000 becquerels (bq) / kg of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters near the Power Plant. Fukushima nucleus 1.

>>>Fish near the Fukushima power plant are contaminated 2,500 times higher

Radioactive fish

This level of radiation is 7,400 times higher than the limit determined by the Japanese Government to be safe for humans.

This is a record high so far for fish caught in this area.

The finfish, 38cm long and 564g in weight, were caught near the water supply gates of 4 reactors at the power plant's port on February 21 when power plant workers carried out the clean-up of fish at the port. this.

TEPCO has set up a seabed net of the exit port in Fukushima prefecture so that fish does not live near contaminated soil and carries this radioactive material to other waters.

According to TEPCO, the concentration of cesium in another seafin caught in this sea is up to 510,000 bq / kg.

Currently, Fukushima fishermen are volunteering to take part in activities to remove fish from dangerous areas except for the time of catching some fish for experiment.