Interestingly, the movement includes many who still believe that the lower frequency radiation from power lines and electric appliances and motors also poses a cancer threat, in spite of the fact that 30 years of research has shown no effects.
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The first Marine detachment sent to Camp Sendai, which lies just over 80 kilometers 50 miles north of the radiation-spewing power plants, came unprepared for the snowstorms, lacking standard-issue winter parkas and insulated boots.
He says radiation emitted from nuclear power stations was less than that which occurs in our natural environment.
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Jan-Mar 1981: Radiation leaks at Tsuruga power plant, Japan. 278 people contaminated.
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But given that there has been no serious release of radiation and that a new power line is now connected, European markets and U.S. futures are moving up strongly in the early going.
If a storm hit, a plant or two would have been knocked out, but millions of people would not have been left without power, and radiation would not have spread over hundreds or even thousands of square miles.
Besides, there are fears that a radiation leak from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will reach Tokyo, and warnings of another massive earthquake.
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Radiation doses from the damaged nuclear power plant are not expected to cause an increase in the incidence of miscarriages, stillbirths or congenital disorders.
Many people were staying indoors over fears that radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant 200 kilometers to the north are wafting over Tokyo.
Tokyo radiation levels are not hazardous to human health at this time following radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the International Atomic Energy Chief Yukiya Amano told reporters Wednesday.
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The latest concern in the region is a radiation leak from the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.
Doses of radiation received by people near the damaged power plant were so low that no discernible health effect could be expected.
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The FDA had been recently begun monitoring imports from the area, but after the Japanese government announced finding elevated levels of radiation from milk and spinach near the power plant, the FDA decided to suspend imports of specific foods altogether.
The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan said that on Monday morning, a radiation level of 3, 130 microsieverts per hour was recorded at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, about six times the legal limit.
New figures on background radiation levels recorded 60km northwest of the Daiichi power plant have also been released this week by Japanese physicist Tsuneo Konayashi from Fukushima Medical University.
The NRA on Wednesday listed eight problems that have occurred at Fukushima Daiichi since March 18, including two power outages and malfunctions with two radiation monitors, and said the agency would strengthen oversight of Tepco to make sure it was working to improve the reliability of the plant's equipment.
Most fusion reactions being considered for power generation create significant amounts of neutron radiation, which can cause severe amounts of harm and damage.
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He wants to stabilise the Fukushima nuclear power plant, around which levels of radiation are proving higher than expected, and may create large, semi-permanent no-go zones, just as at Chernobyl.
Countries including the U.S., U.K and Korea have ordered the evacuation of their citizens in Japan within a 80-kilometer radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which has been leaking radiation since the massive earthquake on March 11.
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The scientists examined the effects of the radiation on mitochondrial DNA - the tiny energy factories which power cells.
The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said exposure to radiation levels in the No 3 reactor for four-and-a-half hours would exceed the emergency safety limit for power plant workers.
Although the outlook for Japanese exporters is looking better, authorities need to find a way to cool the reactors at the troubled nuclear power plant and prevent the further spread of radiation before the outlook for the Japanese economy can get much better.
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The 2011 nuclear-power-plant accident scared away visitors worried about radiation.
We also explored several pressing environmental issues as record levels of radiation were found in fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and we delved into the Gates of Hell -- a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan that has been ablaze for 41 years.
The disaster caused billions of dollars worth of damage to residential and commercial property and also damaged a nuclear reactor that was operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), sending dangerous levels of radiation out into the atmosphere.
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Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
Earlier in the day Hitoshi had driven north to the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, where the reactors are feared to be leaking radiation and at risk of an outright meltdown.
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The many reports documenting a 5-10 year lag between radiation exposure and childhood cancer onset, plus elevated childhood cancer near nuclear power plants, illustrate the heightened sensitivity of the fetus and infant to toxins.
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Holland (1920), Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes followed this logic to declare that no "invisible radiation from the general terms of the Tenth Amendment" applies to the Treaty Power.
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My story Sunday saying that the danger from radiation in Japan will remain small even if things at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant go horribly wrong generated a lot of response.
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