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Radiation levels have been detected at the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant that are being described by some experts as “unimaginable”.
According to the Japan Times Tepco, the company that ran Fukushima, detected atmospheric radiation levels of 530 sieverts an hour.
That’s 100s of times more than a lethal dose for humans and even brief exposure would be fatal.
This will be a major blow to the operator which faces a cleanup that some say could take almost 40 years to complete.
To put that figure into context, just 1 sievert is enough to cause nausea and radiation sickness while 5 sieverts would kill half of those exposed within less than a month.
In fact, the recordings are so high that Tepco’s newly designed robot would last just two hours before its equipment failed.