Fukushima radaition error

Experts: Fukushima contamination data wrong, may be 1,000% of levels reported by gov’t and Tepco

60 billion becquerels of strontium and cesium claimed to be flowing to ‘outer ocean’ each day

ENENews,

20 December, 2013

[...] Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher of marine chemistry at the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute, estimated that 30 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and another 30 billion becquerels of radioactive strontium continue to leak into the outer ocean every day.

[...] available monitoring data have shown no decline in their levels. [...]

TEPCO, the Fukushima prefectural government, the Environment Ministry, the Nuclear Regulation Authority and other organizations have been monitoring radioactivity levels  [...] But the methods of those measurements have been called into question.

Experts pointed out a lack of consistency in the sampling and analysis methods during a Sept. 13 meeting of an NRA panel tasked with ocean monitoring.

“Measurements could vary tenfold at the same site,” one expert said.

“The analysis methods are outdated,” said another.

NRA Commissioner Kayoko Nakamura said she will take measures to improve the situation.

“Data should be taken accurately and reliably,” Nakamura said. [...]

See also: Tepco admits to reporting false radiation levels for nearly 2 years at Fukushima