Articles by Ike Teuling

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Living With Fukushima City’s Radiation Problem
Ike Teuling, Greenpeace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Dec 2011

Overall, the radiation levels in these neighbourhoods are so high that people receive an exposure to radiation just from external sources that is ten times the annual allowed dose. How high their internal exposure is from eating contaminated food and inhaling or ingesting radioactive particles remains unknown, since no government program is keeping track of this.

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Marine Radiation Monitoring Blocked By Japanese Government
Ike Teuling - Greenpeace, 2 May 2011

Despite this great need for information, the Japanese government today refused a permit to do research within the territorial waters of Japan. We are allowed to conduct research outside this 12 mile zone, but this is not the area where the Japanese catch their fish and collect their seaweed. This is a critical situation, so we are not giving up. We will continue heading for Fukushima to begin our research at a distance while we pursue further permission to carry out the sampling within the 12 mile limit.

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