Pssssst the level of radiation at Fukushima is now 18 times higher

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60. Not necessarily according to Tepco

There are many different groups that are monitoring radiation levels including public, academic, and non-profit organizations, not only in Fukushima but throughout Japan. This link takes you to a non-profit site's interactive map for real-time readings for Fukushima (you can get real-time readings by moving your cursor over the colored boxes. The concentration of red and purple boxes is the area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi site). Although the automatic English translations can be a little odd at times, the numerical values don't lose anything in the translation. Values are in microsieverts per hour. For reference, the average ambient radiation level in Denver, Colorado, is approximately 1.34 microsieverts per hour.

At any rate, the monitoring station in Fukushima with the highest radiation level is Ottozawa 3, about a half-mile from the reactors, which has a reading of nearly 27 microsieverts per hour-- 380 times higher than the pre-disaster average of 0.071 microsieverts per hour (and 20 times higher than Denver). Some readings for Fukushima City, about 50 miles away, are 1/10 that, but still roughly 38 times average (or twice as high as Denver). However, other areas in the prefecture are near normal, even places relatively close to the reactors, because of the prevailing winds.

http://new.atmc.jp/pref.cgi?p=07