Page - March 24, 2011
A Greenpeace team of radiation experts is monitoring locations around the evacuation area that surrounds the crisis-stricken Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear plant. They're there to independently assess the true extent of radiation risks that the local population may be facing.
By providing honest, transparent and independent analysis of the threats to public health, we aim to provide an alternative to the often contradictory information released by nuclear regulators in the two weeks since the Fukushima disaster began unfolding.
(Click here to meet the team.)
Since the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the authorities have consistently appeared to underestimate both the risks and extent of radioactive contamination. We have come to Fukushima to bear witness to the impacts of this crisis and to provide some independent insight into the resulting radioactive contamination.
By providing honest, transparent and independent analysis of the threats to public health, we aim to provide an alternative to the often contradictory information released by nuclear regulators in the weeks since the Fukushima disaster began unfolding.
We will be in the Fukushima area to investigate and document the extent of the radioactive contamination and to bear witness to the imapcts that the people of Japan are subjected to because if the radiation.
View Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team in a larger map