Radiation Hot Spot Found at Japan’s Olympic Torch Relay Site
- Radiation detected at facility where Japan starts torch relay
- Utility found that radiation exceeded government-set levels
J-Village sports training center in Naraha, Japan.
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Tepco removed tainted soil near the sports complex where the 2020 Olympic torch relay will start in Japan after Greenpeace Japan found radiation hot spots there, utility spokesman Koichiro Shiraki said Wednesday.
Tepco cleaned a tainted area in Fukushima prefecture on Tuesday after it conducted its own survey and found that the radiation level there exceeded the government-set tolerance level of 0.23 microsieverts per hour, Shiraki said. Humans on average are exposed to 2,400 microsieverts of radiation annually, according to Japan’s Ministry of the Environment.