By Kyung Lah, CNN - August 2, 2011 -- Updated 1427 GMT (2227 HKT)Tokyo (CNN) -- Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have discovered a radioactive hot spot far more lethal than anything previously recorded at the damaged facility, the plant's owner reported Tuesday.
The reading at the base of a ventilation tower between the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors Monday afternoon was 10,000 millisieverts per hour, the Tokyo Electric Power Company announced -- high enough that a 60-minute exposure could kill a man or woman within weeks. A U.S. expert told CNN that radioactive particles most likely concentrated in that area in the first days of the disaster, as plant operators tried to vent the damaged reactors.
And they will continue to find these kind of "surprises" for the next 40 years the least !Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use
Workers find lethal radiation levels at Fukushima Daiichi
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