22 August 2013 (21:40 UTC-07 Tango 21 August 2013)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1392/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
After two and a half years of playing dumb, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) has revealed that 10 trillion becquerels of deadly strontium, and 20 trillion becquerels of cesium, have flooded into the Pacific Ocean since May 2011! The new report does not include March and April 2011!
Actually, anyone who’s been following my postings about Fukushima Daiichi (going all the way back to March 2011) should not be surprised.
The amount could be much higher as TEPCo officials admitted to Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority, in an emergency meeting on 21 August, that they have not kept any official records of radiation emissions or contamination!!! The NRA official responded by saying “So, you rely on the memory of your workers?”
Becquerel is an internationally accepted measurement for a unit of radioactivity, equal to one nuclear decay or other nuclear transformation per second. Named after Antoine Henri Becquerel.
The becquerel (Bq) replaced the curie (Ci) measurement system. Curie is a non-internationally accepted way to measure radiation, named after Marie and Pierre Curie. One Ci equals 37-billion Bq (37 gigabecquerels GBq).
1-thousand Ci of a radioisotope can produce serious health effects after only a few minutes of exposure. 30 trillion Bq is the same as 30 terabecquerels (TBq). 30 TBq equals 810.810 Ci.