IAEA report

IAEA report

TOKYO, Japan - Juan Carlos Lentijo (R), director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Division of Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, hands a report to Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2013. The report said the Japanese government should communicate well with the public that reducing annual individual radiation exposure to 1 millisievert in areas contaminated by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis is a "long-term goal."

Measuring devices readied for major Japan nuclear leakage

Measuring devices readied for major Japan nuclear leakage

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Officials check radiation measuring devices sent Sept. 30 to a local community center in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, that houses residents who fled their homes following a major radiation leakage at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura. According to the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 2-4 millisievert of neutron per hour -- equivalent to 10,000 to 20,000 times the normal level of radiation -- was detected on the plant's premises on Thursday evening.

Measuring devices readied for major Japan nuclear leakage

Measuring devices readied for major Japan nuclear leakage

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Officials check radiation measuring devices sent Sept. 30 to a local community center in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, that houses residents who fled their homes following a major radiation leakage at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura. According to the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 2-4 millisievert of neutron per hour -- equivalent to 10,000 to 20,000 times the normal level of radiation -- was detected on the plant's premises on Thursday evening.