An Aburame fish (Fat Greenling) caught near the water intake for the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan is rewriting all records for radioactivity in a fish.

The fish was found inside the ports leading into the damaged No. 1 and No. 4 reactors on 21 February.  It contained 740,000 Becquerel’s of radioactive cesium per kilogram.  That’s 7,400 times the Japanese government's safety limit for food.

The previous contamination record for a fish since the Fukushima disaster was 510,000 Becquerels.

On 11 March 2011, a magnitude 9.03 earthquake sent a gigantic tsunami across northeastern Japan, flooding and crippling the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.  Within days, the equipment failures lead to meltdowns in three of the plant’s six reactors, with massive explosions and radiation releases.