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| Tokyo bay per-contamination |
Sludge samples taken from the two major rivers flowing into Tokyo bay showed signs of radioactive cesium contamination this Monday. The contamination has been linked to the recent Fukushima nuclear crises in August. although the contamination poses no immediate health risk, professor Yamazaki at Kinki University's Research Institute for Science and Technology told The Japan Times "Contaminated sludge appears to be . . . accumulating on the bottom at the mouth of the rivers". Samples of mud showed an increase of radiation from even the August readings directly after the crises. "If the contamination were to spread to fish, it is possible that
radioactive isotopes could accumulate when bigger fish feed on smaller
ones," Yamazaki said. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120515a4.html
I wrote about the recent shut downs of all nuclear reactors in all of Japan. It looks like people are already responding to the threat of nuclear radiation. And it looks like more shut downs and regulations are coming. It's good that they are placing peoples' safety in front of profit for once.
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