Published: January 18th, 2012 at 9:04 am ET
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Title: Anger spreads as radioactive gravel traced to schools, public road
Source: – The Mainichi Daily News
Date: January 18, 2012
NIHONMATSU, Fukushima — Anger and anxiety are spreading here after highly radioactive gravel from inside the Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuation zone was traced on Jan. 17 to several construction projects in the city, including at local schools.
According to the Nihonmatsu Municipal Board of Education, the stone was used in earthquake-proofing projects at the city’s elementary and junior high schools. [...]
Staff at Asahi Elementary School taking radiation readings along the school route detected emissions of 0.36-0.60 microsieverts per hour — or about the same level as the surrounding area [...]
Parents apparently asked that the road be torn up and the contaminated stone taken away, among other demands. [...]]
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Published: January 18th, 2012 at 9:04 am ET
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The news rolls on
with nuclear horror.
What new nightmare
will come tomorrow?
Are our plans for
the future hollow?
Some days it’s more
than I can swallow
that we let the pigs
in power wallow
grunting and snorting
at the trough –
have we had our fill
as they kill life hallowed
oinking “Not enough!”?
When do we “trophy” them –
mounted and stuffed?
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The children need to wear personal radiation badges, each and everyone. THEN you have proof of exposure with all the hotspots..its the only way. Use sdomething like a RADTriage (TM) badges, sew into clothes to prevent teachers or others to remove or hide the situation, and protect your children! And yourselves. 30 dollars is cheap. There are lots of personal radiation badges, they can be sent in the mail, the size of a credit card, with sensors that change color based on radiation accumulated. Please…
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(Reuters) – Japan will allow nuclear reactors to operate for up to 60 years in revised regulations on power plant operators even as it looks to SHIFT AWAY from atomic power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
The move on Wednesday, which marks the first time Japan will set a limit on a reactor’s maximum lifespan, comes while the country debates a new energy strategy that is expected to give a greater role to RENEWABLE, CLEAN ENERGY SOURCES.
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Chicago Times has it too http://t.co/2SlH7O8a
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… 0.36 to 0.6 (or 0.7+ … right on the ground)… well that is what background rads in my neighborhood in Chuncheon, South Korea are … interestingly, there is a ton of gravel mixed in into the asphalt in this neighborhood and every building has a granite facade to boot … other areas in town (in which I could not see any embedded bits of gravel in the asphalt and where house facades are covered with other materials) have a background radiation level around 0.22 – 0.32 (uSv/hr) …
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DukeNukem4ever,
The Coming Crisis: High Levels of Radioactive asphalt detected in …
Nov 5, 2011 … Employees of a construction company remove asphalt on the road where … and analyze radiation to protect his children worried of radioactive …
http://thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com/2011/11/high-levels-of-radioactive-asphalt.html
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