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High radiation detected at Tokyo school
The Yomiuri Shimbun
(Oct. 19, 2011)
Radiation of nearly 4 microsieverts per hour--a level that slightly exceeds the government-set benchmark for designating evacuation zones--was detected Monday at a primary school in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, ward officials said.
The reading was recorded under the drainpipe attached to a gutter of a machinery room next to a swimming pool at Higashi-Fuchie Primary School. Tests conducted Monday found radiation of 3.99 microsieverts per hour at five centimeters above the ground. At the same point, 0.41 microsieverts per hour was measured at a height of 50 centimeters, and 0.24 microsieverts per hour at one meter.
Ward officials have made the area around the "hot spot" off-limits to students. The area will be decontaminated and the topsoil removed, the officials said...
High radiation detected at Tokyo school
The Yomiuri Shimbun
(Oct. 19, 2011)
Radiation of nearly 4 microsieverts per hour--a level that slightly exceeds the government-set benchmark for designating evacuation zones--was detected Monday at a primary school in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, ward officials said.
The reading was recorded under the drainpipe attached to a gutter of a machinery room next to a swimming pool at Higashi-Fuchie Primary School. Tests conducted Monday found radiation of 3.99 microsieverts per hour at five centimeters above the ground. At the same point, 0.41 microsieverts per hour was measured at a height of 50 centimeters, and 0.24 microsieverts per hour at one meter.
Ward officials have made the area around the "hot spot" off-limits to students. The area will be decontaminated and the topsoil removed, the officials said...