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

Fish caught near Fukushima nuclear power plant (Japan) is 2,500 times higher than the safe level.

Japan's power company Tokyo (Tepco) captured a Murasoi fish at the bay near the main reactor of Fukukshima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to conduct a measure of its radioactive contamination.

Murasoi fish is caught near the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

As a result, TEPCO measured the cesium radioactivity in this fish's meat equivalent to 254,000 becquerel / kg, 2.540 times higher than the safe level of radiation (100 becquerel / kg) given by the Japanese government to seafood type.

The findings left scientists in the region uneasy about the risk of contamination with live fish near the Fukukshima nuclear power plant because the Murasoi fish is the main food of some other fish.

However, the Murasoi fish caught near the Fukushima nuclear power plant does not seem to have signs of changing body shape. Currently, TEPCO is releasing a new series of nets under the water in the circumference of 20 km around the power plant to limit contaminated fish to outside the area.

Another report in October 2012 also showed that the level of radioactivity in most fish species caught off the coast of Fukushima showed no sign of decreasing after 1 year of a radiation leak disaster at the reactor. Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011.

Scientists believe that cesium radioactivity leaking from power plants mixed into seawater and has a risk of affecting fish species for decades.

In August 2012, Tepco announced that the fish species caught in a 20km radius around the Fukushima nuclear power plant had levels of up to 25,800 becquerel / kg.