Greenpeace monitors have warned the Japanese government to evacuate the town of iitate, due to elevated radiation levels of a year's dose in just a few days, but no evacuation has been ordered or advised by the government.
Greenpeace rocks. Governments tend to suck.
There Is No Safe Dose, Contrary to Industry/Gov't Line
Media coverage of the dangers of radiation has at times seemed to echo the nuclear industry's claims that small amounts of radiation are not harmful.
A comprehensive study by the National Academy of Sciences concludes:
that the current scientific evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that there is a linear, no-threshold dose-response relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and the development of cancer in humans.
Documentation and references? They got 'em.
Who do you believe, The Chamber of Commerce, or Greenpeace?
How bad can it get?
Monitoring around Chernobyl, Greenpeace is finding contaminated food.
Greenpeace said Monday that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still eating food contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion a quarter-century after the blast.
In a report, the environmental group said samples of milk, berries, potatoes and root vegetables in two Ukrainian regions show unacceptably high levels of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 from the 1986 blast. The regions are in northwestern Ukraine, outside the so-called "exclusion zone" around the plant, where residency is generally prohibited.
Government ignores warnings. Greenpeace rocks on.