Antinuclear

From Greenpeace:
“Tokyo, 7 March 2017 – Japan’s policy to resettle residents to heavily contaminated areas in Fukushima is in contravention of Japanese law and multiple international human rights treaties. Greenpeace Japan and Human Rights Now detailed today numerous human rights violations resulting from the Japanese government’s response over the past six years to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

“If there is anything the nuclear industry learned from Chernobyl, it’s that a large exclusion zone is bad for business. It’s a constant reminder that a nuclear disaster is irreversible, and it’s women and children who are bearing the brunt,” said Kendra Ulrich, Senior Global Energy Campaigner with Greenpeace Japan.” Read the rest here: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/2017/Fukushima-resettlement-policy-violates-international-human-rights-commitments–Japanese-law/

MA Note:
In the NGO letter below, they discuss 20 mSv per year background radiation exposure levels. What does that mean? Over the course of 5 years the exposure would be 100 mSv…