While the news from Japan is not good, the reporting in the NY Times is 
noteworthy for its absence of Imperial / USC units: 

Experts estimate that about 7 tons an hour of radioactive water is escaping the 
pit. Safety officials have said that the water, which appears to be coming from 
the damaged No. 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi, contains one million Becquerels 
per liter of iodine 131, or about 10,000 times levels normally found in water 
at a nuclear facility. 

Ezra 

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