| ArcticGabe said: The content of radioactive iodine-131 concentration in the water near the No. 2 reactor is 7.5 million times the maximum allowable level under law, Kyodo cited TEPCO as saying. |
I don't think they have too much to worry about, it's most likely just a statemnt to reassure the public that they are monitoring the situation.
As for the quoted section, last time I knew that figure represented radiation levels of the water inside the reactor. When this gets flushed out to sea it is likely diluted (and obviously then diluted massively as it enters the ocean) and so radiation levels are unlikely to be too much for concern which is backed up by a statement from the BBC:
"But it (Tepco) stressed in a news conference on Monday that if people ate fish and seaweed caught near the plant every day for a year, their radiation exposure would still be just 0.6 millisieverts. Normal background radiation levels are on the order of 2 millisieverts per year."
Not to mention that all the iodine will have decayed in about 3 weeks anyway. Not sure on what the cesium levels are though?
