Radioactive iodine level near Fukushima 4,300 times above norm

The concentration of radioactive iodine in seawater near Japan’s crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is currently 4,385 times above the norm, the Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday. The figure has rapidly increased over 1,000 times since Wednesday, when levels of radioactive iodine-131 isotope in the sea near the plant were 3,355 times higher than […]