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Listen to the Voices from Japan –
A Half Year after Fukushima…
http://enenews.com/economist-enormous-spread-radiation-iitate-levels-high-hills-locals-dare-150-millisievertsyr-officials-home
SOURCE: Radiation in Japan: Hot spots and blind spots, The Economist, October 8, 2011
Iitate, 45 km from meltdowns] offers an extreme example of how difficult it will be to recover from the disaster. That is mainly because of the enormous spread of radiation. […]
Outside [the chief of Iitate’s village council, Mr. Chohei Sato’s] house, however, a reading of the equivalent of 150 millisieverts a year left your correspondent strangely reluctant to inhale.
Crest the hill into the village of Iitate, and the reading on a radiation dosimeter surges eightfold—even with the car windows shut. […]
Radiation levels in the hills are so high that villagers dare not go near them. […]
Kyodo: Gov’t says plutonium appears to be from meltdowns — Found at 6 locations — 45 km from plant in Iitate September 30, 2011
1. Local Official: Radioactive forests a permanent risk, must be cut down — Every gust of wind showers cesium particles over village October 6, 2011
2. *After Cleanup* High school: 7.9 microsieverts/hour — Day care center: 7.1 microsieverts/hour August 31, 2011
3. Cesium-137 in soil 40 km NW of Fukushima Daiichi more than highest levels found at Chernobyl March 26, 2011
4. 229 millisieverts/year of cumulative radiation in town outside exclusion zone — Exposure limit for ordinary people is 1 millisievert/year August 20, 2011
From a Newsgroup [click to enlarge]:
Japanese radiation advisory board is planning to raise the safety limit from 1 mSv/y to 20 mSv/y.