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Radiation at Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

Fukushima Watch: At Fukushima Daini, It’s Safer Inside Than Outside WSJ, July 4, 2012,  That’s because Daini is just 10 kilometers south of Fukushima Daiichi, the site of Japan’s biggest nuclear accident. And since the area still receives lots of radioactive fallout from Fukushima Daiichi, radiation exposure is less inside the thick-walled reactor buildings than it is out in the compound.

JRT, which went on a media tour of Daini on Wednesday, found that background radiation levels in the plant compound were around 0.5 to 1.0 microsieverts per hour — some 16 to 33 times higher than prior to the March 2011 accident.

In Tokyo, radiation levels are about 0.05 microsieverts per hour, in most places….
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/07/04/fukushima-watch-at-fukushima-daini-its-safer-inside-than-outside/

July 5, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Japan