Breaking news - The authorities in Tokyo have notice high level of radiation in spinach and fish near the damaged nuclear plant in the north east of Japan. The public broadcaster NHK stated that on Tuesday 26 April 2011, 2 600 to 3,200 of Becquerel’s per Kg of radioactive caesium was found in two samples of fish species. The fish is named sand lance and was caught off in Iwaki City and report says that the radiation level is of 5 to 6 times higher than a security limit.
Furthermore, on Sunday the local government has detected 960 Becquerel’s of caesium in spinach collected in Otama village in Fukushima region. The power station in Tokyo was severely damage after the earth quake and tsunami since then there has been leaking radiation. To set a safety standard for leafy vegetables the governments has ban some kind of export of fish and vegetables which has been harvested near the plant.
Due to high contaminated water workers were prevented to work near the nuclear plant and the government also highlighted that procedures to decontaminate the water will start in June.
