Not good news:
Quote:
Radiation levels in seawater off Japan plant spike to all-time highs
Tokyo (CNN) -- The levels of radiation in ocean waters off Japan's embattled Fukushima Daiichi plant continue to skyrocket, the nation's nuclear safety agency said Thursday, with no clear sense of what's causing the spike or how to stop it.
The amount of radioactive iodine-131 isotope in the samples, taken Wednesday some 330 meters (361 yards) into the Pacific Ocean, has surged to 4,385 times above the regulatory limit. This tops the previous day's reading of 3,355 times above the standard -- and an exponential spike over the 104-times increase measured just last Friday.
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Article here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/as....html?iref=NS1
With I-131 having such a short half-life it's obvious that radioactive material is being leaked constantly from somewhere.
