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Nuclear ‘Hot Spots’ Detected
at 20 Schools in Fukushima
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
Magnetic Field Detector
May 8, 2012
Fukushima, Japan: More than
20 schools in Koriyama city in Fukushima Prefecture, home to
the crippled
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, have ‘hot spots’ with
high radiation levels on their premises, a civil group said.
The finding was based on
municipal education board documents it obtained through an
information disclosure request, it said.
The education board
instructed elementary and junior high schools as well as
nursery schools, in January, to check air radiation levels
in side ditches, hedges and drains on their premises.
Schoolyards and classrooms were excluded as the levels there
have been regularly examined.
Reports submitted by each
school in April showed at least 14 elementary and seven
junior high as well as five nursery schools have hot spots
where the cumulative annual radiation dose could reach 20
millisieverts, or more than 3.8 microsieverts per hour.
At the start of the new
academic year in April, the education board lifted a
restriction that had limited students to playing in
schoolyards for less than three hours per day in the wake of
the nuclear disaster last year.
Tokiko
Noguchi, head of the civil group, told a press conference
yesterday, “there are many spots in schools where radiation
levels still remain high,” calling on the education board to
restore the restriction.
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