Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction 237
mdsolar writes "The Japanese government is investigating how radioactive concrete ended up in a new apartment complex in the Fukushima Prefecture, housing evacuees from a town near the crippled nuclear plant. The contamination was first discovered when dosimeter readings of children in the city of Nihonmatsu, roughly 40 miles from the reactors at Fuksuhima Dai-ichi, revealed a high school student had been exposed to 1.62 millisieverts in a span of three months, well above the annual 1 millisievert limit the government has established for safety reasons."
Re:More importantly, (Score:5, Funny)
Why are the building new housing complexes in the Fukishima Death Zone? Build prisons instead.
to spawn tentacle rape demons, have you never watched anime?
Re:A bit of perspective (Score:5, Funny)
Norway ... has some of the highest radeon levels in the world...
Radeon levels? Is Nvidia an obscene word in the Norwegian language perhaps?
Re:More importantly, (Score:5, Funny)
Why are the building new housing complexes in the Fukishima Death Zone? Build prisons instead.
All they need is one kid with a homemade lab growing guppies in that apartment complex to brew up the first in Godzilla's family tree. Hollywood is that desperate for a blockbuster sequel.
Easy Solution. . . (Score:2, Funny)
So, the cesium is in the concrete. We need a way to block the radiation. Lead is usually a pretty good material for blocking radiation.
Oh... Lead Paint!
You're welcome.
John Hodgeman would be proud.
On a more serious note, does this actually matter? Kids don't stay at home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so any estimates of the increase in exposure should, I hope, include the fact that kids are going to be gone something like 1/4 - 1/2 of the time they live there?
We live in a constant bath of low-level radiation. I'm not too worried about a slight increase in that background level of radiation.
Life evolved to live in varying levels of low-level radiation and survive. I'd have no fear of living there, or having my kids live there (I don't currently have kids, but I have no fear of low levels of radiation).
In the apartment's defense, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More importantly, (Score:1, Funny)
Prisons are built to take away freedoms.
Clearly you've never been to an American prison.
Re:More importantly, (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, for most teenagers that I know (I'm looking specifically at my niece), cleaning up their room would be hard labor. Probably on the order of a Superfund site.
Re:More importantly, (Score:5, Funny)
Your personal experience is but a single data point...