Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive

November 4th, 2011

Via: Japan Times / Kyodo:

More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday.

Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has been releasing radioactive material into the environment since the week of March 11, when the quake and tsunami caused core meltdowns.

“This won’t be a problem if they don’t eat vegetables or other products that are contaminated,” said Nanao Kamada, professor emeritus of radiation biology at Hiroshima University. “But it will be difficult for people to continue living in these areas.”

Kamada teamed up with doctors including Osamu Saito of Watari Hospital in the city of Fukushima to conduct two rounds of tests on each resident in early and late May, taking urine samples from 15 people between 4 and 77.

Radioactive cesium was found both times in each resident.

One Response to “Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive”

  1. Eileen says:

    This is ludicrous.
    I guess the great USA was never once considered war criminals when they dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
    But this TEPCO/Japan government thing. Why are these people being tried on environmental war crimes?
    Unbelievable to me that they are not.
    I for one have stopped eating fish if its from anywhere near Alaska, and in an unrelated by similar environmental war crime, the Gulf of Mexico.
    Sorry you purveyours of food from them there parts of the world, I don’t need more toxins in my body. I already have enough toxins from amalgum fillings.Yeah, a rash I can’t get rid of after having some fillings removed without proper procedures being employed. My fault. I an idiot.
    Screw you Tepco. Screw you too Japan.
    You are killing off your people without a conscience. And screw you, US companies who sell ANYONE fish without having performed radioactive, let alone mercury or oil residue testing.
    If you want to survive as purveyors of food you must give us the bad news along with the good someday.
    Until then so sorry. Won’t be eating fish, shrim or whatever unless I know where it comes from and know it isn’t full of s++t.

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