2.47 million Bq/Kg of cesium from dried sludge

 

Fukushima local government measured 2.47 million Bq/Kg of cesium from dried sludge called “Melt dust”, which is produced from sewage sludge after reducing its weight. They melt the dried sewage sludge by 1200℃ of heat to reduce the weight to 1/30.
The melt dust was made last May, at Kenchu sewage plant in Koriyama Fukushima.
The total weight of the melt dust is 58 tones, they measured 47,430~2,470,000 Bq/Kg of cesium.
Now it’s kept in concrete box.

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粉じんから高濃度セシウム=汚染汚泥処理で-福島
福島県は24日、県内の下水処理場で汚泥を減量処理した際に発生する「溶融ダスト」と呼ばれる粉じんから1キロ当たり最高247万ベクレルの放射性セシウムが検出されたと発表した。
高濃度の粉じんは県中浄化センター(郡山市)で昨年5月ごろ、脱水した汚泥を約1200度の高温で溶かして30分の1程度に減量する過程で発生。粉じんの全体量は58トンで、セシウム濃度は4万7430~247万ベクレル。現在は袋に詰めた上でコンクリート製の箱に入れ、敷地内の保管庫に収納され、外部には漏れ出ていないという。(2012/02/24-22:13)

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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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