Source: NHK World
Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 09:07 +0900 (JST)
A city 60 kilometers away from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has decided to distribute dosimeters to all kindergarteners and school children to monitor their radiation exposure.
Voices of parents expressing concern about their children's health due to the radioactive contamination are growing louder.
Shoji Nishida, the mayor of Date City, Fukushima Prefecture, announced the plan on Thursday.
Date City is now outside the evacuation zone but earlier this month the estimated radiation levels at 3 locations topped the evacuation level of 20 millisieverts per year.
This level is 20 times higher than the long-term annual reference level for ordinary people recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection.
The city has allocated about 300,000 dollars to give dosimeters to about 8,000 children at local kindergartens, day-care centers, elementary and junior high schools.
Mayor Nishida said that the city decided to take the broad scale measurements as parents are deeply concerned about their children's radioactive exposure.
Friday, June 10, 2011
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