First estimates of total radioactive cesium and iodine emissions from Fukushima plant : News blogThe amount of the long-lived radioactive isotope cesium-137, and the shorter-lived iodine-131, which have already escaped from the troubled Fukushima power plant in Japan may be significant, approaching emissions of these isotopes from the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The estimates come from Austria’s weather service, the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna. Fukushima is no
