A Japanese civic group aiming to eliminate nuclear power plants in the country submitted some 1.8 million signatures to House of Representatives Speaker Takahiro Yokomichi on Tuesday. The group has since collected some 7.48 million signatures and plans to submit the remaining signatures later to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and House of Councillors President Kenji […]
Japan’s atomic energy authority and space agency announced a joint project to develop a drone to measure radioactivity in the environment after radiation from Fukushima Daiichi Fukushima was scattered over a large area, and spread as far as several hundred kilometers from the power station by wind and rain. Remote-controlled helicopters have been used but […]
On April 19th, 2011, the Japanese government raised the allowable annual radiation exposure limit from 1 mSV (millisievert) to 20 mSV. The decision was heavily criticized by experts inside and outside Japan, as it is applied to children who are more susceptible to radiation, and this limit does not take internal radiation dosage into consideration. Japan’s […]