Parent anger plays role in Japan's reversal of raised radiation limits at schools
Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
Japan's Education Ministry has pulled an about-face, returning exposure limits for schoolchildren 1 millisievert a year. Officials will also pay for removing surface soil from affected schoolyards.The parents were furious: Why, they demanded, had Japanese officials raised the acceptable level of radiation exposure for schoolchildren near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?