Greenpeace monitoring effort | Lenz Blog
Greenpeace wants schools in Fukushima closed because of radiation. They had a radiation measuring team doing some monitoring in schools there, finding levels of radiation exceeding the “international 1 mSv/y maximum allowed” in many places. While I don’t agree with them regarding the safety levels, I think it is a good thing they are doing [...]
No livestock farmers apply for government help | The Japan Times Online
What the….? SENDAI — No livestock farmers in the four prefectures worst hit by the March disaster have applied for a government aid program to help them resume operating, apparently because the qualification terms make it impossible, local authorities said.Under the support program, the government offers subsidies to livestock farmers to remove tsunami debris and [...]
