A Geiger counter in Itate village, some 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant showing radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. People living here would receive the yearly maximum dose of radioactivity within a few days.
By Veronika Hackenbroch, Takako Maruga and Cordula Meyer
The destroyed reactors at Fukushima have been releasing radiation for weeks. According to model calculations, the stricken nuclear plant could already have released one-tenth of the amount of radiation unleashed in the Chernobyl disaster. How serious a risk does the disaster pose to humans?
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