The high level of cesium-which, depending on the level of exposure, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding, coma, and death in people who eat contaminated food-was discovered as TEPCO prepares to begin the discharge of treated wastewater which has been used to cool fuel from the melted reactors. Rainwater from the areas surrounding the reactors flows into the area where the fish was caught. The fish was caught near drainage outlets at the plant, where three nuclear reactors melted down in March 2011 during a tsunami. The plant operator, known as TEPCO, analyzed a black rockfish in May that was found to contain levels of radioactive cesium that were 180 times over Japan’s regulatory limit, The Guardian reported. With the Tokyo Electric Power Company planning to begin a release of 1.3 million tonnes of treated wastewater from the former Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan next month, reports of radioactive fish in the area have raised alarm in recent years-and new reporting on Sunday revealed that the problem is far from mitigated, prompting questions about how dangerous the company’s plan will be for the public. The fish was caught near a drainage outlet where water from melted nuclear reactors flows-some of the same water that is to be treated and released from the power plant starting next month.
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