Science 17 June 2011:
Vol. 332 no. 6036 p. 1368
DOI: 10.1126/science.332.6036.1368

• News & Analysis

Japan Disaster

Citizens Find Radiation Far From Fukushima

1. Dennis Normile

Summary

Frustrated by a dearth of information on what happened to all of the radiological isotopes released from the ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, civic groups and individuals have been monitoring radiation on their own. Collectively, they have produced a worrisome picture of contamination throughout eastern Japan, with some hot spots surprisingly far from the crippled reactors.

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