soil contamination

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Soil contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been a recurring topic on WindowsForum.com. Discussions cover the detection of plutonium isotopes in soil samples taken outside the facility, with levels comparable to those from past atomic bomb tests. Other threads report elevated concentrations of radioactive strontium-90 and strontium-89 in soil near the reactors, far exceeding historical readings from Cold War-era nuclear tests. These posts focus on environmental monitoring and the spread of radioactive materials following the 2011 disaster, providing data on specific isotopes and their measured activity in becquerels per kilogram.

  1. Plutonium found outside Fukushima plant

    Minute amounts of plutonium have been detected for the first time in soil outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Shinzo Kimura of Hokkaido University collected the roadside samples in Okumamachi, some 1.7 kilometers west of the front gate of the power station. They were taken during...
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  2. Radiation levels fall in Fukushima seawater

    The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has detected high levels of a radioactive substance that tends to accumulate in human bones. Tokyo Electric Power Company says it took soil samples on May 9th at 3 locations about 500 meters from the No.1 and No.2 reactors and...
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  3. VIDEO CANADIAN POLITICIANS JOCKEY 4- PENSIONS & FUKUSHIMA poisons BC soil.

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