Fish with high cesium level found near Fukushima plant

March 19, 2013

The Japanese utility that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant has found a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught close to the plant.

This level is 7,400 times higher than the Government limit for safe human consumption.
Radiation was spread into the surroundings of the Fukushima nuclear plant after it was damaged in the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.
Most fish along the Fukushima coast are barred from market.

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