Radioactive strontium continues to be spewed from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.  Soil samples taken at the plant, on 18 April, tested positive for strontium 89 and strontium 90.

Strontium collects in your bones and can cause various bone cancers.  You get contaminated by breathing it.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says April’s strontium 90 levels are 130 times higher than the levels detected in March!  The levels of strontium 89 are 4,400 becquerels per kilogram of soil!

Because of the increase in strontium levels, officials in the Japanese government are advising that readings need to be taken in areas outside the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Once again, you’d think  they’d already be doing that.