Photo: Toru Yamanaka, AFP / Getty Images Japanese officials have
found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in
seawater near the crippled Fukushima plant. That staggering
number has prompted the Japanese government to set radiation
safety standards for the first time for seafood -- 2,000
bequerels of iodine per kilogram of fish. Kounago fish caught on
Friday, approximately 50 miles from the nuclear plant, were
found to contain 4,080 bequerels of radioactive iodine-131 and
526 bequerels of cesium 137. According to the Wall Street
Journal, those results were the first clear indication that fish
were being contaminated as a result of leaks from the Daiichi
plant. Nichols Fisher, a professor of marine sciences at SUNY at
Stony Brook told the New York Times that according to some
radiation safety guidelines, people could eat 35 pounds of fish
per year containing the level of cesium 137 detected in the
Japanese fish. "So you're not going to die from eating it right
away, but we're getting to leve