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."

Comments

Re:More importantly,

[ae1294]

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?

Re:A bit of perspective

[quenda]

Norway ... has some of the highest radeon levels in the world...

Radeon levels? Is Nvidia an obscene word in the Norwegian language perhaps?

Re:More importantly,

[WrongSizeGlass]

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.

In the apartment's defense,

[need4mospd]

They're already receiving glowing reviews.

Re:More importantly,

[ColdWetDog]

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.

Re:More importantly,

[vuke69]

Your personal experience is but a single data point...