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Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction
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."
Why are the building new housing complexes in the Fukishima Death Zone? Build prisons instead.
to spawn tentacle rape demons, have you never watched anime?
Norway ... has some of the highest radeon levels in the world...
Radeon levels? Is Nvidia an obscene word in the Norwegian language perhaps?
Why are the building new housing complexes in the Fukishima Death Zone? Build prisons instead.
All they need is one kid with a homemade lab growing guppies in that apartment complex to brew up the first in Godzilla's family tree. Hollywood is that desperate for a blockbuster sequel.
So, the cesium is in the concrete. We need a way to block the radiation. Lead is usually a pretty good material for blocking radiation.
Oh... Lead Paint!
You're welcome.
John Hodgeman would be proud.
On a more serious note, does this actually matter? Kids don't stay at home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so any estimates of the increase in exposure should, I hope, include the fact that kids are going to be gone something like 1/4 - 1/2 of the time they live there?
We live in a constant bath of low-level radiation. I'm not too worried about a slight increase in that background level of radiation.
Life evolved to live in varying levels of low-level radiation and survive. I'd have no fear of living there, or having my kids live there (I don't currently have kids, but I have no fear of low levels of radiation).
They're already receiving glowing reviews.
Prisons are built to take away freedoms.
Clearly you've never been to an American prison.
Actually, for most teenagers that I know (I'm looking specifically at my niece), cleaning up their room would be hard labor. Probably on the order of a Superfund site.
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