The 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, contaminated parts of these countries, as well as Belarus.
But because the most heavily contaminated parts of Fukushima are, like the village in Kawamata, a hilly mosaic of houses, woods, and fields, the government can't leave nature entirely untouched.
These are perhaps the most frequently contaminated parts of the kitchen, but how often do you clean them?
Isotopes of cesium and other radionuclides were to be removed by early 2014 from houses, roads, farms, public buildings, and wooded areas within 20 m of living areas in all but the most heavily contaminated parts of the exclusion zone (defined as those where the air dose rates for residents could exceed 50 mSv/yr).
"That's the most likely form of nuclear terrorism and it's the least dangerous," says Schlosser, "in the sense that it would contaminate part of the city with radioactivity but it wouldn't kill many people.
This serpent-like prophecy--whether self-fulfilling or otherworldly remains a mystery to me--has contaminated every part of the Agwu family's lives, from their relationships to their mental health to their Christian faith.
These qualitative data are contaminated in part by the knowledge that the patients involved had suffered an adverse event (cardiac arrest, unplanned ICU admission or death) following a period of physiological instability.
Similarly, insectivorous bats will discard contaminated insect parts, which can then be consumed by foraging animals (107), although mechanisms for such route of pathogen transmission from insectivorous bats has not been corroborated to date.
