Kashiwa's hot spot just one of many to come, expert says

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Kashiwa's hot spot just one of many to come, expert says


By MIZUHO AOKI
Staff writer

The hot spot discovered in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, has local residents alarmed now that the science ministry has confirmed the source of the radiation is probably fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

But another radiation expert warns that there are more hot spots to come.

Masahiro Fukushi warned citizens Monday that more hot spots can be found where rainwater accumulates, like near the ditch in Kashiwa, and urged them to go out and take readings of such places in their neighborhoods on their own, instead of waiting around for the government's plodding surveys.

Contamination in much of Kashiwa is far higher than other parts of the Tokyo metropolitan area, so the mini hot spot really wasn't much of a surprise, said Fukushi, a professor of radiation science at Tokyo Metropolitan University...

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