Tens of thousands of evacuees can't head home for months

So now radiation has been found in beef, what next for Japan.

The effects are being seen here in the states also. it is funny though that all those radiation monitoring stations they rushed to put up mysteriously did not work, radiation was detected all the way in Boston before the rest of the United States.
And then the report that radiation contaminated milk was found in Washington State, yeah they say it is at extremely low levels, but do you want to trust anybody in charge? Imagine the mayhem here if everybody knows that we are ingesting food contaminated with radiation, of course they are going to tell us the levels are low.


CNN
"The evacuation period is going to be longer than we wanted it to be," Edano said. "We first need to regain control of the nuclear power plant."...

The plight of the evacuees and those within a 20-to-30 kilometer radius of the facility, who have been told to stay indoors and encouraged to leave, is one of many storylines still playing out in relation to the crisis. Many are rooted at the northeast Japan power plant where dozens of workers, soldiers and others are rushing to prevent the disaster from worsening, while further afoot farmers, citizens and officials are dealing with the effects of already released radiation.

That includes news Thursday, from Japan's health ministry, thatradiation higher than the regulatory limit has been found in beef from Fukushima prefecture, the same province as the embattled nuclear plant.

The levels were slightly above the guidelines set by Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission -- 510 becquerels (a measurement of radioactivity by weight), compared to the official limit of 500 becquerels. For reference, Japan earlier set a 100-becquerel threshold at which infants shouldn't drink tap water, with a 300-becquerel maximum for adults.

The meat will not be sold and will be retested, the ministry said.

The finding is the first such in beef, although authorities have banned the sale and transport of numerous vegetables grown in the area after tests detected radiation.