Outrage as Japan lifts radiation limit for kids

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/24/3225435.htm

By Tokyo correspondent Mark Willacy

Posted Tue May 24, 2011 12:43pm AEST

Outraged parents have held a rowdy demonstration outside Japan's education ministry in Tokyo to protest against the government's decision to weaken nuclear safety standards in schools.

Under new guidelines, Japanese children are allowed to be exposed to 20 times more radiation than was previously permissible. snip

The government argues the change is essential to keeping schools open in the Fukushima region.

According to Nobel Prize-winning group Physicians for Social Responsibility, the new limits mean exposed children now have a one-in-200 risk of getting cancer, compared with a one-in-500 risk for adults.

It's throwing their children under the bus.

In WWII, British kids were sent out of the towns that were being bombed to the safer countryside while the adults needed to sustain civilization stayed.

ET: Ironic that the only nation to have nuclear weapons used against it has now allowed one of its corporate citizens to nuke it yet again.

containment cannot be accomplished it seems.... i wont be suprised to see a revolution or worse.