» 54,000 Bq cesium found in groundwater, record high

2014/02/13

TEPCO said on Feb 13th that it has detected a record 54,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per liter in groundwater from an observation well east of the reactor 2 turbine at the Fukushima No. 1.

The radioactive cesium level far exceeded the previous record of 22,000 becquerels detected in groundwater taken from a separate observation well in July 2013.
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Groundwater cesium reaches record level (Japan Times)

Record cesium level found in groundwater beneath Fukushima levee (Asahi Newspaper)

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