IAEA concerned about radiation in Japan village

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VIENNA, March 30 | Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:05am EDT

VIENNA, March 30 (Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency has told Japan that radiation levels recorded at a village near a stricken nuclear reactor are over recommended levels, a senior IAEA official said on Wednesday.

Iitate village lies 40 km (25 miles) northwest of the nuclear plant.

"The first assessment indicates that one of the IAEA operational criteria for evacuation is exceeded in Iitate village," IAEA official Denis Flory told a news conference.

"We have advised the counterpart to carefully assess the situation and they have indicated that it is already under assessment," he said. (Reporting by Fredrik Dahl and Sylvia Westall)

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hereintheusa wrote:
we still don’t have an accurate measurement of the radiation levels inside the reactor building #2. we keep hearing “1,000 millisieverts” but the equipment they’re using to measure it only goes up to 1,000 millisieverts. are they purposefully doing that? don’t they make sensors that go higher and can give us an accurate reading of the true level of radiation?

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