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A Place to Play?: The government has prioritized the decontamination of Fukushima’s schools, and several centimeters of topsoil were removed from this school playground. The Safecast volunteers checked the government’s post-cleanup radiation report with their own equipment. They found that radiation levels were low in the playground, but they increased significantly in the easily accessible woods just beyond.
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Eliza Strickland
Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum, where she covers AI, biomedical engineering, and other topics. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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