Reply #10: Fish are already testing for radiation!

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The amount of water being released is equivalent to more than four Olympic-size swimming pools.

The government approved the release of the water into the sea as an "emergency" measure, even though it had levels of radioactive iodine 131 more than 100 times the legal limit allowed for sea discharge. The government asserted that it would not pose immediate threat to humans, but health ministry official Taku Ohara said the ministry was considering drawing up radioactivity food-safety standards for fish after high radiation levels were detected in a sand lance, a bottom-feeding fish, caught off the coast of Ibaraki prefecture.

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. faces a growing problem of what to do with the vast amounts of contaminated water. With limited facilities for storing the water, the utility and the government are now considering options including putting it into a "floating island" offshore, or installing an undersea barrier, usually used to contain old spills, that might slow the radioactive water's move offshore.

http://www.thirdage.com/news/japan-radiation-water-dumped-sea_4-4-2011?page=1