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High radiation levels on orchid island, Taiwan

Japanese professors detect high radiation on island in Taiwan Japan Times, Kyodo TAIPEI, 20 Nov 12,  — Two Japanese scholars say they have detected high levels of radiation on Orchid Island, a temporary underground storage site of low-level radioactive nuclear waste off Taiwan’s southeastern coast.TAIPEI —

Katsumi Nakao, an anthropology professor of J.F. Oberlin University in
Tokyo, and Yo Kato, an associate professor of the School of Radiology
of Tokyo Metropolitan University, told a news conference at Taiwan’s
legislature Tuesday that they detected high levels of radiation near a
health clinic on northern Orchid Island earlier this month.

If a healthy person were exposed to that much radiation for 10 hours,
they said, it would far exceed the amount a person can safely receive
in a year.

They said they were not certain whether the radiation had anything to
do with the storage facility located in the south of the island.

Lin Chia-lung, a member of the main opposition Democratic Progressive
Party who helped organize the news conference, urged the Taiwan
government to conduct a thorough investigation into their findings and
provide health checkups for everyone on the island…..
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121121a9.html

November 22, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Taiwan