Radioactive reactors around Japan 5 million times higher than the limit

Standing water near nuclear power plants in Japan Fukushima I have radiation levels greater than 5 million times the permitted level.
A house in the tsunami washed in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture.


This information officials of the power company Tepco, plant operators Fukushima I, launched yesterday, the LA Times reported. However, Tepco unspecified radioactive leak from. Earlier, a test shows the level of radioactivity in the water near the nuclear power plant 7.5 million times higher than permissible limits, then this level has been reduced.

Officials said the radiation levels will be reduced to sea away from the reactors. However, the test water samples in distant waters of nuclear power plants, radiation levels are still hundreds of thousands of times higher than the limit.

Meanwhile, Japanese officials also add seafood to the list of foods is limited by the use of radiation. This announcement came after Japan discovered radioactive iodine in fish near the power plant Fukushima I.

Some countries such as India, Singapore is expanding its ban on food imported from Japan.

Japan facing worst crisis since World War II after 9 earthquake on the Richter scale followed by a tsunami caused severe nearly 28,000 people dead or missing.