Rice straw contaminated with radiation

Rice straw contaminated with radiation

KURIHARA, Japan - A cattle farmer gazes at rice straw, from which radioactive materials have been detected, at a barn in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 26, 2011. Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano announced the same day an emergency policy of buying up beef contaminated with radiation following the recent impounding of a slew of cattle suspected of being fed cesium-tainted rice straw amid the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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