Radioactive fish at 124 times ‘safe’ levels caught near Fukushima

A fish with dangerously high levels of radioactive cesium was caught several miles from the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, officials said.

Japan’s Fisheries Research Agency said Friday the fish was one of 37 black sea bream caught in the area as part of an effort to determine how much nuclear contamination has entered the food chain after the power plant suffered a meltdown in 2011 after a powerful earthquake and tsunami.

The black sea bream caught had a stunning 12,400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in its body, which is 124 times the amount considered safe for human consumption. TRUNews