From the article...
“...Robert Peter Gale, a US medical researcher who was brought in by Soviet authorities after the Chernobyl disaster, said recent higher readings of radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137 should be of greater concern than reports earlier this week of tiny quantities of plutonium found in soil samples.
But he added: “It’s obviously alarming when you talk about radiation, but if you have radiation in non-gas form I would say dump it in the ocean.”
Gale, who has been advising the Japanese government, said: “To some extent that’s why some nuclear power plants are built along the coast, to be in an area where the wind is blowing out to sea, and because the safest way to deposit radiation is in the ocean...”
The article also says they want to ‘tarp’ over any hot spots, so I take it water/seawater is not covering all the hot spots which means contamination is getting airborne.
Would be a lot better if the hot spots were completely covered with water while awaiting them to cool...they won’t say what the hell is really going on but they are really really sorry about the whole thing.
Japanese government (people) will be handed the costs of the bad portion of the company along with the ‘inconvenience’