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In April, the Japanese government raised its maximum limit for children to 20 millisieverts per year, a level that leads to 2,270 cancers annually per million people (or 160,000 lifetime cancers per million). A fifth of the 1,600 schools in Fukushima prefecture were exposed to at least 20 milliseiverts of radiation this year
the Cabinet Office team -- set up to support victims of the nuclear disaster had predicted radiation doses of 1-2 millisieverts per year, but the data showed doses at between 2.6 and 6.6 millisieverts.
Atsuo Tamura, an official on the Cabinet Office team, admitted radiation results were recalculated, but denied it was hiding anything. However, professor Shinzo Kimura of Dokkyo Medical University said, "I can't see it as anything but them fiddling with the numbers to make them come out as they wanted."
The Miyakoji district of Tamura is set to have its evacuation order lifted on April 1, and the eastern part of Kawauchi is expected to have its evacuation order lifted sometime during 2014.
the Cabinet Office team -- set up to support victims of the nuclear disaster had predicted radiation doses of 1-2 millisieverts per year, but the data showed doses at between 2.6 and 6.6 millisieverts.
Atsuo Tamura, an official on the Cabinet Office team, admitted radiation results were recalculated, but denied it was hiding anything. However, professor Shinzo Kimura of Dokkyo Medical University said, "I can't see it as anything but them fiddling with the numbers to make them come out as they wanted."
The Miyakoji district of Tamura is set to have its evacuation order lifted on April 1, and the eastern part of Kawauchi is expected to have its evacuation order lifted sometime during 2014.