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Japan decrees exhaust new areas around nuclear power plant in Fukushima

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Japan has declared Thursday, November 4 evacuation areas near the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima (North East) where they detected high levels of radioactivity, local officials said.

This decision aims Data 113 town houses, located about 60 kilometers northwest of central Fukushima Daiichi (number one), seriously damaged by an earthquake followed by tsunami on 11 March.

The authorities have registered high levels of radioactivity over the legal limit of 20 milisievert year, the Government established in districts Ryozenmachi, Kamioguni, Shimooguni and Tsukidatemachi.

Government will provide financial assistance to families who agree to leave their home, a local official said.

Over 85,000 people were evacuated within a radius of 30 km around the plant. Since the disaster, they live in makeshift shelters, hoping to be able, once to return home.

In addition, a study of ten children living in a town in Fukushima, 62 miles from center of the atom, revealed the presence of small amounts of radioactive substances in the urine of their citizens' association announced a nongovernmental organization ( NGO) French.

All samples collected in May, the children, aged between 6 and 16 were contaminated with cesium 134 and cesium 137, elements present in a concentration between 0.4 and 1.3 becquerel per liter of said in a statement, ACRO (Association for Control of Western radioactivity), created in France, following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

Analyses were performed in a laboratory the French at the request of civic associations in Fukushima.

"These results should lead to the Japanese authorities to measure systematically, internal contamination of people who were exposed to radioactive columns and those living in contaminated territories," said ACRO.

"This also confirms the idea that the limit (20 milisievert) established by the Japanese authorities for delimitation of the exhaust is too high," said association. 

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