More on Japan

[Jim Hardeman <Jim_Hardeman@mail.dnr.state.ga.us>]

The following was just posted on the
Yahoo news site:

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Radiation levels were
15,000 times normal 1.2 miles from the
site of Thursday morning's nuclear
accident, a local government official said
early Friday. 

``As of late Thursday night, 3.1 millisievert
of neutrons per hour, or about 15,000
times the normal level of radiation, was
detected two kilometers (1.2 miles) from
the accident site,'' an Ibaraki Prefecture
official told Reuters. 

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Jim Hardeman
Manager, Environmental Radiation
Program
Environmental Protection Division
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
4244 International Parkway, Suite 114
Atlanta, GA 30354
(404) 362-2675  fax: (404) 362-2653
Jim_Hardeman@mail.dnr.state.ga.us




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