{"id":7249,"date":"2011-04-08T16:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T23:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7249"},"modified":"2011-04-09T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T17:45:55","slug":"radiation-near-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/radiation-near-fukushima\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiation near Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A news crew drives into the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in the following video. The place is a ghost town (other than animals), and damage from the earthquake and tsunami has gone unrepaired. Although their Geiger counter goes off whenever they hit the &#8220;legal limit,&#8221; the levels really aren&#8217;t that bad. Most of the time within the zone radiation is at 1 or 2 \u03bcSv per hour. For comparison purposes, 0.34\u03bcSv\/h is average for living in the USA, so inside the radiation zone they are getting about 5 times what Americans are normally experiencing in an hour. They peak at about 8 \u03bcSv per hour, but that doesn&#8217;t seem to last long. Even when they are really close to the reactor they sometimes have levels only a few times what people living thousands of miles away experience on an hourly basis.<\/p>\n<p>During their entire time in the zone (assuming they were in it for a couple hours), they probably encountered less radiation than what a person is exposed to in a dental exam (and hundreds of times less than what a person getting a mammogram receives).<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/radiation-or-not-in-nikko\/>Note that radiation levels in places like Nikko, Japan (in the neighboring prefecture) are about a third of what you will find in the USA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yp9iJ3pPuL8?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A news crew drives into the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in the following video. The place is a ghost town (other than animals), and damage from the earthquake and tsunami has gone unrepaired. Although their Geiger counter goes off whenever they hit the &#8220;legal limit,&#8221; the levels really aren&#8217;t that bad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}