4,040 Bq/kg from beach

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The Environmental Scientific Society of Iwaki District (Chairman: Hashimoto Koichi, an honorary professor of Fukushima National College of Technology) measured 4,040 Bq/kg from the sand of the beach in Nagasaki Kaigan, Iwaki Fukushima.

They took measurements from April to November. They took 30 samples from 14 locations along 60km of coastal line. They determined that the contamination is higher to the north and lower to the south.

They also found out that the radiation level is higher inside the sand than on the surface. They are going to publish their research results on 1/21/2012.

(Source)

東日本大震災:砂浜のセシウム、4040ベクレル検出--いわき /福島

いわき市の市民団体「いわき地域環境科学会」(会長、橋本孝一・福島高専名誉教授)は1日、いわき市の永崎海岸の砂浜で採取した砂から、最大で1キロ当たり4040ベクレルの放射性セシウムを検出したと発表した。

調査は4~11月、約60キロある海岸線の14地点約30カ所から砂を採取、食品の測定と同じ検出器で計測した。計測の結果、市北部の海岸で高く、南部が低い傾向が出た。

同会によると、表面よりも内部で放射線量が高いケースがあり、陸上と砂浜では別の仕組みがある可能性が高いとしている。詳細な調査結果は、来年1月21日の発表会で報告する。【和泉清充】

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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