8 Feb (NucNet): Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said today that the radiation level in the containment vessel of Unit 2 may have reached as high as 530 sieverts per hour (Sv/hr), but this “reading” was only an estimate based on image analysis with a margin of error of 30%.
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