Rice containing radioactive caesium found in Japan

[Omaha Steve]

Source: BBC

By Roland Buerk

Radioactive caesium has been detected above the safety level in rice for the first time in Japan since the nuclear crisis began at the Fukushima plant.

The sample came from a Fukushima city farm about 60km from the plant.

The government is considering banning shipments from the area it was found.

There have been a series of scares over radiation in food in Japan in recent months - in beef, mushrooms and green tea among other products - but never before in the country's staple, rice.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15769321

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The rice came from an area outside the exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

[No Elephants]

1. My heart breaks for that country and its people.

I've heard people use the term "Biblical proportions" when it doesn't apply.

It is apropos here, though.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The government can try, but the rice will make it onto international markets,

country of origin obscured.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. The market for Japanese-style rice is rather limited

The short-grain type that is predominant in Japan, japonica, is only preferred in Japan, and parts of Korea and China, so there isn't much of an international market for it. Furthermore, the variety that is favored in Fukushima, Koshihikari, is only grown in one other place in the world besides Japan-- and that is Arkansas. So it would be pretty difficult to hide the country of origin.

[valerief]

3. Who could have seen that coming? nt

[No Elephants]

10. And the DLC wants us to use infrastructure banks on behalf of nuclear power plants in the US.

[plumbob]

13. Nuclear power is the dirtiest, most dangerous, and most expensive way

to boil water ever invented.

Anyone building a plant from this day forward is guilty of genocide.

[SoapBox]

4. Face it...the entire country and all of it's products, are radioactive.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Every square meter of the earth's surface is.

So, that doesn't say much.

[closeupready]

6. And 3 Mile Island was a Success Story!

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[plumbob]

12. Radioactive caesium has been detected above the safety level

The whole earth is above the safety level? Really?

Got a link for that?

[AtheistCrusader]

14. I would rather refer you to the post that I replied to.

Which I responded to accurately.

[alp227]

7. UPDATE: Japan bans Fukushima rice shipment due to contamination

Japan has banned shipments of rice from an area near the nuclear power station at Fukushima after high levels of radioactive caesium were detected.

The sample came from a Fukushima city farm about 60km from the plant.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in March, resulting in radiation leaks.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said the material was detected during pre-shipment tests and the contaminated rice had not been sold to consumers.

full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15786289

[No Elephants]

9. I'm sure the FDA would make similar assurances on behalf of U.S. growers.

No matter what the reality was.

[DeSwiss]

11. After three reactor melt-downs (or rather, three melt-throughs)....

...it would be easier to say what doesn't have radioactive cesium in it.

- K&R