Posted on 10/18/2011 3:10:02 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011
Adachi school drainpipe has mini hot spot
Tainted soil to be buried in deep hole on campus, ward official says
By MINORU MATSUTANI
Staff writer
High levels of radiation have been found at a public elementary school in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, near the end of a drainpipe that collects rainwater from the roof of a machine room for the school's swimming pool, a ward official said Tuesday.
The radiation reading — 3.99 microsieverts per hour — was detected 5 cm above the ground near the drainpipe at Higashi Fuchie Elementary School when the ward checked Monday, official Hiroyuki Komatsu said. That compares with the 0.25-microsievert threshold the ward set, above which it would remove soil or take other decontamination action, he said.
The end of the drainpipe stops dozens of centimeters from the ground, and thus rainwater drops to the soil, not to a sewer, he said.
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Maybe a migratory bird ate something in a hot area and pooped it on the roof of that school?
I used to live less than 1 km from that school..! OMG...
I do wish they’d report these reading in REM instead of Sieverts. I can relate to REM. I don’t know about Sieverts.
And that radiation that is dumped into the sea will be coming back to haunt the Japanese. Attack of the radioactive seagulls.
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