Japan Professor: 25 times more Fukushima fallout detected in Tokyo Bay mud than maximum level found in nearby lake after nuclear bomb explosions — Cesium flow in rivers won’t peak for another 1-2 year…
ENENews.com (ENENews) - 2/8/12 11:09 AM
Title: Scientist: Cesium sank 20 cm in Tokyo Bay mud
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Author: By NOBUTARO KAJI / Staff Writer
Date: February 08, 2012[…] Last August, [Hideo Yamazaki, a professor of environmental analysis at Kinki University] sampled seabed mud at four locations near the mouth of Arakawa river in Tokyo Bay. […]
The cesium deposit had a maximum density of 18,242 becquerels per square meter. That is 25 times greater than the peak cesium density in the mud in Lake Biwako, Shiga Prefecture, due to fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests in the past. […]
Large amounts of cesium flow in from rivers and accumulate on the seabed. The rate of that process will peak 1-2 years from now, Yamazaki said.
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Distance from Lake Biwako to Hiroshima is 270km:
Distance from Arakawa River mouth at Tokyo Bay to Fukushima Daiichi is 240 km:
