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Radiation Found Outside
Japanese Schools
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
Magnetic Field Detector
KORIYAMA, Japan, May 7 (UPI) -- Radiation hot spots were
recorded outside 26 schools in the same prefecture as the
crippled
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a civil group
said Sunday.
The group said it obtained the information about
the schools in Koriyama from municipal education board
documents it obtained through an information disclosure
request, Kyodo News reported Monday.
In January, the education board had nursery,
elementary and junior high schools check air radiation
levels in side ditches, hedges and drains on school
property. Schoolyards and classrooms were not tested because
those areas have been examined regularly, the news agency
said.
The results of those tests showed at least 14
elementary schools, seven junior high schools and five
nursery schools had hot spots where the cumulative annual
radiation dose could reach 20 millisieverts, or more than
3.8 microsieverts per hour.
When the new academic year began in April, the
education board lifted a restriction that students play in
schoolyards for less than 3 hours per day in the wake of the
nuclear disaster last year.
"There are many spots in schools where radiation
levels still remain high," Tokiko Noguchi, head of the civil
group, told reporters Sunday.
The group is calling on the education board to
restore the restriction.
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