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Saturday
Apr022011

Highly radioactive water pours into ocean from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 reactor

The Los Angeles Times reports that water emitting 100 rem per hour of radioactivity -- enough to deliver a fatal dose of radiation after just a few hours worth of exposure at close range -- is flowing freely into the sea, despite efforts by Tokyo Electric Power Company and the Japanese military to dam it behind concrete in the plant cable ditches which it is flooding.