6/9/2011 | Tokyo Riot Squad to Safeguard Tepco Meeting

Source: Bloomberg
Date: Jun 9, 2011 9:47 PM CT
by: Takahiko Hyuga and Tsuyoshi Inajima

Japan’s National Police Agency will send 150 officers and riot squads to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s annual general meeting this month to quell possible protests by shareholders and terror attacks, a police official said.
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6/10/2011 | Japan adds four new areas to radiation threats

Source: CNN (International)
Date: June 10, 2011 -- Updated 0718 GMT (1518 HKT)

Katsunobu Sakurai, Minamisoma city mayor of Fukushima prefecture, speaks before the press in Tokyo on Thursday.

Tokyo (CNN) -- Four new areas in northern Japan have been added to the list of places affected by radiation originating from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, authorities said Friday.
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6/10/2011 JST | TEPCO testing water treatment system

Source: NHK World
Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 12:09 +0900 (JST)

Tokyo Electric Power Company is conducting a test-run of a new system to treat the highly radioactive water that is flooding facilities at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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6/10/2011 JST | Children in Fukushima to be given dosimeters

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.