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Article Source: hsnwA survey revealed that 45 percent of children living near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been exposed to thyroid radiation; following the nuclear disaster and the revelation that radiation was leaking from reactor no. 1, researchers tested more than 1,000 children from newborns to age fifteen in the Fukushima Prefecture; children were found to have been exposed to 0.04 microsievert per hour or less in most cases
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One sample taken from a gutter, a place where radioactive materials tend to gather, contained as much as 931,000 becquerels per square meter, far exceeding the 555,000 becquerels per square meter limit for compulsory resettlement in the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. Tests from the other three locations found between 326,000 and 384,000 becquerels per square meter
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