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Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-recycling-goes-bad dept.

mdsolar writes "The Japanese government is investigating how radioactive concrete ended up in a new apartment complex in the Fukushima Prefecture, housing evacuees from a town near the crippled nuclear plant. The contamination was first discovered when dosimeter readings of children in the city of Nihonmatsu, roughly 40 miles from the reactors at Fuksuhima Dai-ichi, revealed a high school student had been exposed to 1.62 millisieverts in a span of three months, well above the annual 1 millisievert limit the government has established for safety reasons."

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  1. More importantly, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why are the building new housing complexes in the Fukishima Death Zone? Build prisons instead.

    1. Re:More importantly, by Microlith · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      I expect that even if they had not, still no one would have died.

      Since you so sincerely believe that not to be true, would you mind working up the cumulative dose of radiation over the past year for someone inside the evacuated region near the plant?

    2. Re:More importantly, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Since you so sincerely believe there is no danger in that zone, why don't you go live there?