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Radioactivity detected in breast milk in Japan
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 04 - 2011

Awwal 26, 1432 / April 30, 2011, SPA -- Small amounts of radioactive substances have been
found in the breast milk of seven women in a survey involving 23
women in five Japanese prefectures, including Tokyo and Fukushima,
dpa quoted news reports as saying Saturday.
The amount was below the provisional limit for milk and dairy
products under the Food Sanitation Law and poses no health risks to
babies, Kyodo News agency reported, citing Japan's Health Ministry.
Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was
damaged by a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 and has
leaked radiation into the air and sea ever since.
Several kinds of vegetables, fish and raw milk from areas near the
plant have been already banned due to high levels of radiation
detected in samples.
Meanwhile, two workers at the plant were found to be close to the
nation's radiation exposure limit, TEPCO said Saturday.
The two were hospitalized in late March after they were exposed to
radiation in the basement of a reactor building flooded with
contaminated water. They were diagnosed as having sustained beta
ray radiation burn injuries to their legs.
High levels of radiation at the plant have prevented workers from
restoring key cooling functions.
TEPCO published the results of its radiation tests on 21 plant
workers whose cumulative exposure doses had exceeded 100
millisieverts as of the end of March.
Of the 21 workers, two exceeded the line of 200 millisieverts,
with radiation in one case coming dangerously close to the newly-set
legal limit of 250 millisieverts.
Eight others posted levels of between 150 and 200 millisieverts,
while a further 11 recorded levels ranging from 100 to 150
millisieverts, the operator said.
Workers whose total exposure exceeded 150 millisieverts are
transferred out of the plant.
Meanwhile, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has defended his
cabinet's handling of the crisis after the government was criticized
by a radiological safety expert who serves as special adviser to
Kan's cabinet. The expert, Toshiso Kosako, resigned on Friday.
Kosako had criticized the government's handling of the nuclear
crisis, saying it was inappropriate and appeared to be causing a
delay in efforts to resolve the crisis.
A professor at the University of Tokyo, Kosako had been named
special adviser to the cabinet in mid-March, soon after the crisis
started.
Kan, who has also expressed doubts about TEPCO and the country's
Nuclear Safety Commission over their responses to the crisis, had
appointed Kosako and five other experts as special advisers to the
cabinet.
Kosako had also criticized the Nuclear Safety Commission's failure
to swiftly disclose the results of estimates on the spread of
radioactive substances made by the System for Prediction of
Environmental Emergency Dose Information, or SPEEDI, Jiji news agency
reported.
The professor said it was meaningless to stay in his post since
none of his recommendations had been taken into consideration.
His resignation was seen as a major blow to the premier.
Kan, however, said Kosako had left the post because of the
disagreements with other scientists.


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