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Greenpeace condemns move to raise radiation exposure levels for Japanese children

Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2011

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22nd April, 2011

Tokyo, Japan, 22 April, 2011 – Greenpeace today called on the Japanese government to drop plans to raise the official limits of radiation exposure for children in Fukushima Prefecture, 20 milliSievert per year (1) – the same level as nuclear power plant workers, and twenty times the internationally recognised annual allowable dose for adults.

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