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Radioactive cesium has more than doubled since last summer.
Right around the time that TEPCO's testing equipment "failed," which resulted in the worst ever recorded levels of strontium-90 at Fukushima being underreported by a factor of five, the company pulled up readings of cesium-134 and cesium-137 at 11,000 Bq/L and 22,000 Bq/L, respectively. But readings taken just before Valentine's Day show a major spike in both of these isotopes.
After dropping to 310 Bq/L of cesium-134 and 650 Bq/L of cesium-137 in August, levels of the two isotopes in groundwater jumped to 22,000 Bq/L and 54,000 Bq/L, respectively, about six months later. Since the previous readings taken in July had set a record at that time, the latest readings, which are more than double that, show that the situation at Fukushima is only continuing to worsen rather than improve.
“…a growing number of experts is calling on TEPCO to be removed from the helm of Fukushima cleanup efforts, as the company has proven itself to be dishonest and incapable of getting the job done. If remediation efforts continue as they have been, a much worse accident will occur at some point down the road, they say, in which potentially extinction-level amounts of radiation are released globally.”
"Some critics say that TEPCO can't be trusted and that the world's largest nuclear accident is still waiting to happen at Fukushima, such as an accidental nuclear reaction that releases large amounts of harmful radiation into the air," writes Anthony Kuhn for WBUR.org and National Public Radio. "One thing that seems certain is that the work of cleaning up and shutting down the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will go on for a long time. TEPCO predicts it could last 30 or 40 years. Others say that estimate is blindly optimistic."
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