Fukushima prefecture is 14500 km2 and 2M inhabitants less than 8% of the territory and 3.5% of population have been evacuated.

Most of the japanese would be perfectly OK eating food from Fukushima prefecture without fear-mongering idiots scaring a gullible population with occasional radiations level in food lower than one would find in a simple banana or brazil nut.

Exclusion will be lifted next year for all areas with less than 20mSv/y of radiations level, that's more 80% of the evacuated area. Also half the radiations are due to Cs-134 with a half-life of 2 years. That mean all zones will be available in less than a decade, including municipalities like Namie or Iitate.

There's a big difference between what you are allowed to receive every years during your carreer and a maximum environmental exposure that could hypothetically only happen one year. I'm sure the inhabitants of Ramsar who live with a natural radioactivity level of more than 100mSv/y would be laughing a lot at this.

Yeah sure I wonder how any other energy production facilities would have fared facing the same earthquake and tsunami. Do you really think the Japanese government will be dumb enough to replace nuclear plants with tenth os thousands of off-shore tsunami-proof windmills ...

Obviously missing data in TFA: estimated cost of production for these marvelous batteries ...

So this is a computation using a statistical model to give estimates of the soil contamination, and it becomes facts and measured quantities in the ground. But worse, look at the original scale provided by the authors of the paper: it clearly shows the areas under 2500Bq/kg, but the journalist conveniently merged it with the upper-bound area and also avoided the use of the green/blue colors usually associated with safe values in any mapping. Maybe the original map had not enough red and orange area for effective scare-mongering ? BBC I am disappointed...

At least an investment that makes sense, instead of wasting taxpayer money in subsidizing the existing inefficient solar panels (and worse, purchasing them abroad where they're produced with the most polluting industry).

Shouldn't the appropriate icon for this submission be Privacy rather than Security ?

> Energy from the sun is free, and it would be unethical to charge people to use the Strawberry Tree
*facepalm* And this "Strawberry Tree", was it free too ? The materials, the space used ? Will the maintenance be delivered by faeries during the night ? It would probably be better to inspire young people about what is economy and most importantly what is an environmental life-cycle analysis. I'm betting this gizmo has a far worse environmental footprint than the electricity from the Serbian grid.

Two ! Hey can you tell your friends I would love to have an invitation ?

Are you aware that the casualties related to the Fukushima plant accident are zero ? OK I'll grant you that maybe some operators at the plant may have decreased their lifespan of a few months due to a statistically significant increased risk of cancer, but that's hardly an "enormous impact" on the health of an "entire" generation. Please avoid the usual scaremongering headlines of the mass media regarding health and nuclear energy and remember that when deaths are accounted for energy produced, nuclear energy is the safest source we have around even compared with "renewable" energies.

Please Google and Apple, join Amazon and explain to the 4 greedy bastards and the MAFIAA that a music file does not need a specific license to be streamed once it has been bought.

Of course, conspirationists don't RTFA where the first link point you to a high res image of a landing site.
Now how your trolling has been moderated positive to this point is beyond my understanding....

This is really StarTreck futurism: considering huge improvements in spacefaring techs but with humans beings still stagnating in present biological and cultural levels ... IVF and ectogenesis would be efficient by this time. Even better, extreme longevity would be also granted since it is a precursor to the techs allowing bone loss regeneration and resistance to increased ionizing radiations damage. Space is for transhumans & robots ... Not the likes of captain Kirk guys.

Oops, Should have not only read TFA but followed the links ! The paper from the Fraunhofer Institute linked in the article describes everything. (PDF 92 kB)

What a useless report if we don't know which version of iPhone is targetted ? If this attack is effective against an iPhone4 then that's very interesting news, overwise who cares, we already know that 3GS and previous models are wide open.