Preventing radiation contamination more important than TEPCO's stock prices. Widen evacuation zone for children, pregnant women: Greenpeace chief. The government should consider evacuating children and pregnant women from a wider area around the Fukushima No. 1 power plant because radiation levels remain high even outside the 20-km no-go zone, Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, said Thursday in Tokyo. Naidoo’s team of radiology experts found hot spots that had a maximum hourly reading of 45 microsieverts of radiation alongside a school zone.
While the area likely had high levels of radiation as a result of the landscape or other natural conditions, Naidoo insisted the central government should conduct thorough checks and provide accurate and fast information to local residents. “Enough lives have been lost already” due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and it is not justifiable for the government to neglect the health risks of high radiation in Fukushima, he told reporters at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.
Naidoo, a native of South Africa, was named head of the global NGO in November 2009. No. 1 plant's air radiation highest measured so far. Radiation leakage may eventually exceed that of Chernobyl: TEPCO. Farmers, firms to sue nuke plant operator over radiation leaks. NHK WORLD TV on USTREAM: Official NHK WORLD TV live on USTREAM. NHK WORLD TV is an English language 24-hour international news and information channel. New.
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