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Radioactive Japanese cars detained in Russia’s Far East
Published: 14 April, 2011, 19:19
TAGS: Health, Russia, Prime Time Russia, Anya Fedorova, Neil Harvey, Japan
Customs officials in Vladivostok seized a radioactive cargo of 50 cars from Japan. Their level of radiation is two times higher than normal.
The cars are being kept in an isolated area while it is decided what to do with them. Their recipients say they do not have the right to send them back to Japan.
Earlier this week, customs in Vladivostok seized a cargo of 20 radioactive cars.
Intensive beta-radiation was discovered during a checking of the “Asian Ice” ship.
This is the first large shipment of radioactive second-hand cars from Japan. Earlier, heightened levels of radiation were found on several private vehicles.
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These cars had "double the normal radiation" which is well within safe bounds.
I grew up in an area 7 miles from not one but THREE partial (one near total) nuclear plant meltdowns with no containment domes and radioactive releases (one is 250 times the release of 3 mile island)...US Gov admitted this in 1989, 20-30 years after the events.
Yet there have been NO definitive results showing severe medical problems in the area outside of plant personelle...and this is the Los Angeles area.