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The radiation at the starting point of the Olympic flame exceeded the standard, 1775 times the level

The radiation at the starting point of the Olympic flame exceeds the standard

Comprehensive foreign media reported on December 4 that Japan's Ministry of environment disclosed on the 4th that environmental protection organizations had found a high amount of space radiation in some areas of the parking lot of Yamachi camp adjacent to the football stadium 'j-village' in Fukushima Prefecture, requiring Tokyo Electric Power Company to decontaminate again, and the company has implemented relevant operations. The venue is the starting point for the torch relay of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.

According to the guardian, the 'j-village' Stadium is about 19.3 kilometers away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant damaged in the earthquake. In recent years, it has been a logistics transit point for staff to control and dismantle abandoned nuclear reactors. The Japanese government hopes to use the Olympic Games to show the recovery of Fukushima from the tsunami in 2011. It plans to take 'j-village' as the starting point of the Olympic torch relay.

However, on October 26, the environmental protection organization measured a radioactive reading of 1.7 microsieverts per hour at a place 1m from the ground near the venue, which was higher than the safety standard of 0.23 microsieverts. If the ground is monitored, the radioactivity reading is 70.2 microsieverts per hour, 1775 times the level before the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Environmental protection organizations say that people's annual exposure to natural radiation is 2000 to 3000 microsieverts, which means that staying near 'j-village' for a short time will not be life-threatening, but if they stay for more than two days, people's exposure to radiation will exceed the sum of natural radiation in a year. The organization said that it had conveyed the findings to the Japanese government and Japanese and International Olympic organizations, and would issue a report on the findings next year.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the Fukushima nuclear power plant, said that after the Japanese Ministry of environment informed the company of the relevant situation, the company had cleaned up these pollution points on the 3rd. According to Japan's Kyodo news agency, the decontamination is the unpaved ground. Dongdian removed about 0.03 cubic meters of soil and grass around and investigated the types of radioactive substances.

According to the latest data from the 'j-village' website on December 4, the radiation reading at the main entrance of the venue is 0.111 microsieverts per hour, and the reading of one stadium is 0.085 microsieverts.

The Tokyo Olympic flame is expected to arrive in Japan from Greece on March 20 next year. The torch relay is scheduled to officially start on March 26. The Tokyo Olympic Games will open on July 24.