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The plant has regulatory guidelines (predating 3/11) that allow certain releases. For Cs137 it's up to 90 Bq/L. The WHO standard for drinking water is 10 Bq/L.
As part of the plan that the local fisherman approved, Tepco agreed to limit these releases to 1 Bq/L and to have a 3rd party test the water before release. The regulators are saying that they're going to hold Tepco to that tighter standard.
The new release was measured (for 137) to be under .05 Bq/L by both Tepco and the 3rd party.
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