| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/07/30, 9:00 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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OKYO, Jul 30 2013 (IPS) - Life for Yoshihiro Watanabe and his wife Mutsuko, mushroom and rice farmers from Fukushima, has changed drastically since the disastrous meltdowns in the Dai Ichi nuclear plant that was hit by a massive tsunami after a 9.0 strong earthquake struck on Mar. 11, 2011.
“Dangerous levels of radiation from the crippled nuclear reactors have effectively forced us to stop our
mushroom cultivation and reduced our farming income almost 80 percent,”Watanabe told IPS.
He added that the family is also taking extreme care to protect their health by choosing only “safe” food, resulting in “a nerve-wracking lifestyle.” Exposure of food to radiation increases cancer risks.Under limits set by the Japanese government, food products that report contamination exceeding 100 becquerel per kilogram cannot be sold. Becquerels are a measure of food radiation.
Watanabe’s 200-year-old farm lies in Dateshi Ryozenmachi, a small farming town 55 km from the now defunct Fukushima nuclear reactor. This year, the official Deliberate Evacuation Area was reduced to a 40 km radius around the damaged reactors even though radioactive risks have been noted in areas up to 100 km away.
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