Tokyo - As Japanese government troops begin searching for missing persons, released information indicates radioactive material leaking into the air from the Daiichi nuclear facility in early April was far greater than what had previously been estimated.
Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) released data over the weekend showing that, as of April 5, radioactive material being released into the atmosphere at Daiichi was estimated at 154 terabecquerels per day. The government agency had previously estimated leaking radiation at the site on April 5 to be “less than 1 terabecquerel per hour,” the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.
On that day, cesium-137 and odine-131 were released into the atmosphere at estimated rates of 0.14 terabecquerel and 0.69 terabecquerel per hour respectively, Yomiuri Shimbun reports the NSC as stating. The emissions are converted into iodine-131 equivalents for estimation on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), arriving at the total of 154 terabecquerels per day.
One terabecuerel is the equivalent of one trillion becquerels.
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