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Japan Times: Fallout from Fukushima causing problems 180 kilometers away — “It’s all become no good”… Contaminated wild vegetables, fish, wild game

http://enenews.com/japan-times-fallout-fukushima-causing-problems-180-kilometers-away-all-become-good-contaminated-wild-vegetables-fish-rivers-wild-game

Published: February 16th, 2013 at 12:57 pm ET
By ENENews

Title: Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc
Source: The Japan Times
Author: Winifred Bird
Date: Feb 17, 2013

Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc

For Yuji Hoshino, mushrooms were a way of life. The 50-year-old farmer grew up watching his father raise shiitake mushrooms on their land at the foot of the mountains in Sanno, southern Tochigi Prefecture. […]

Because of fallout from three reactor meltdowns there, he has not sold a single shiitake since last May […]

Hoshino’s farm is about 180 km from the destroyed reactors.

[…] he shut down the family store last May and began disposing of 30,000 logs exposed to radioactive rain. […]

“Everything I’ve done up till now, it’s all become no good. I can’t collect wild vegetables and I can’t sell my mushrooms. There are problems with the fish in the rivers and I have to worry about contamination levels in the wild game, too. That’s what makes me the most angry,” he said. […]

See also: NHK Special: ‘Unexpected finding’ revealed in Tochigi Prefecture — 17 times radiation limit in front of school (VIDEO)

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/12/cesium-measured-from-100-of-wild-boar-samples-in-fukushima-over-100-bqkg-from-19-of-20-samples/

February 16, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized