1.4 million Bq/kg from the nest of swallow

 

Ministry of the Environment announced that they measured 1,400,000 Bq/Kg of cesium from the nest of swallow in Okuma machi, which is 3km away from Fukushima nuclear plants.
It is assumed to be made of mud or dead leaves from rice fields.
From the analysis of National Institute of Radiological Sciences, it was 2.6μSv/h at surface, 0.08 μSv/h at 50cm away.

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ツバメの巣から140万ベクレル 離れれば「影響なし」
2012.3.23 23:18 [放射能漏れ]
環境省は23日、東京電力福島第1原発から約3キロ離れた福島県大熊町にある建物の壁で採取したツバメの巣から、1キログラム当たり約140万ベクレルの放射性セシウム(セシウム134と137の合計)を検出したと発表した。

環境省によると、巣はセシウム濃度が高い付近の田んぼの泥や枯れ草を集めて作ったとみられる。千葉市の放射線医学総合研究所(放医研)に運び、巣表面の放射線量を測定すると毎時2・6マイクロシーベルトだったが、約50センチ離れると同0・08マイクロシーベルトに下がったことから、同省は「近づかなければ巣による人への影響は無視できると考えられる」としている。

調査は、事故による生態系への影響を調べようと放医研などと連携。昨年11月から、原発20キロの警戒区域内外で、放射線の影響を受けやすいとされる動植物を中心に選定、調査した。

 

 

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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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