NHK: 42% of residents’ radiation exposure tops annual limit — Survey excluded people working in places with high radioactivity — Only used 4 months of data

Published: February 21st, 2012 at 2:38 am ET
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Title: 40% of residents’ exposure tops annual limit
Source: NHK
Date: Feb 21, 2012

40% of residents’ exposure tops annual limit

[...] Fukushima Prefecture released on Monday the results of its survey of external radioactive exposure among some 9,750 residents of 2 towns and a village after the accident last March. This number excluded people working in places with high radioactivity, such as a nuclear plant.

Participants were asked about their behavior over a 4-month period immediately following the nuclear accident in order to estimate their external exposure.

Forty-two percent of the respondents are estimated to have received more than one millisievert — the annual limit for the general public — in the 4 months following the disaster. [...]

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Published: February 21st, 2012 at 2:38 am ET
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