(AP)
TOKYO - Japan has banned shipments of rice grown near a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant for the first time after detecting radiation exceeding the legal limit.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Thursday that a sample of rice from a farm contained 630 becquerels of cesium per kilogram. Cesium is among the radioactive materials that leaked from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant after it was damaged by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Under Japanese regulations, rice with more than 500 becquerels of cesium per kilogram is not allowed to be consumed.
i remember back when three mile island had the meltdown. the government said everything was ok, even that idiot jimmy carter went in there to show everyone things were ok. it worked until some researcher got the idea to test the cows milk from the surrounding dairys, all the milk turned out to be radioactive! I now wonder about the fish in the pacific after they dumped all the cooling water into the sea!
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