#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: 1.6 Million Bq/Kg of Cesium from Ocean Soil In Front of Water Intake for Reactors

(Update) OH WAIT A MINUTE.... The information says "... becquerels/kg of WET SOIL. The density will be way higher in DRY SOIL. TEPCO does not provide information on the water content in the samples.

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730,000 becquerels/kg of cesium-134, and 870,000 becquerels/kg of cesium-137 from the ocean soil in front of the water intake for Reactors 1 through 4, south side.

The north side is also high, with 640,000 becquerels/kg of cesium-134 and 760,000 becquerels/kg of cesium-137 (total 1.4 million becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium).

They must have analyzed for other nuclides but they are not saying yet.

From TEPCO's handout for the press on December 1, 2011 (Japanese only):



Photos of sample collection, from the same handout:

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