about once a week, the fish here is tested for radiation. so far, they've passed with flying colors. the fishermen here insist their flounder, octopus and shrimp are safe to eat, and yet customers at the neighborhood fish market are down by half since the nuclear accident. "if consumers are misled by harmful rumors," this fish merchant said "none of us will be able to make a living." the government argues food fears are overblown and says hundreds of food samples are tested daily for radiation and few exceed the government standards. with a shortage of radiation detection devices it's not possible to test every catch. while the risk may be small, yasuda is not taking any chances with her child. she says, "maybe low-level radiation exposure won't give my child cancer but if down the road she became sick i would be overwhelmed with regret about why i wasn't more careful." with low-level and widespread contamination of their soil and water, they could face years of uncertainty over what to place on their table. >> pelley: "consumer reports" rel

if you have less radiation, it is less bad.ave less and less and less and less and less, you finally get to a point where any risk of that radiation is just trivial and you shouldn't be making decisions on the basis of it. and that's literally the place the body scanners operate at. >> so the question is what is the cancer risk for this individual? >> reporter: david brenner is director of the center for radiological research at columbia university medical center. he says the odds are one in ten million people will develop cancer as a result of a backscatter scan. but when fully deployed-- a billion travelers could pass through a backscatter machine each year. >> it's a very small risk, so, you and i don't have to worry about walking through these machines. but if a thousand million people walk through these machines, it's a whole different ball game. >> reporter: brenner says its like the lottery. the odds may be long, but people still win. brenner predicts when fully deployed, backscatter scanners could give a hundred travele

and he's been going through the scanner with a radiation detector.s are showing every time he goes through the scanner, it's a different level of radiation. so they're not calibrating these machines equally. there can be surges in radiation, the dose goes entirely into the skin, not through the body. and so when the original testing was done, it was done based on the radiation moving through the whole body, so the tests were really inaccurate. and then the tsa found out about six months ago when they went out and did some random tests that the scanners were showing about ten times higher radiation than what they had disclosed to the american flying public in the beginning. so it's really a crapshoot as to whether or not you're getting a real low dose of radiation when you go through. and for those who do travel a lot, it's definitely cumulative and it never leaves your body. >> well, you may be changing my travel behavior, as we speak. but that means that americans are left with this choice of exposing themselves to this radiation or exposing themsel

where they needed to release radiation into the atmosphere. we could measure the real impact into the atmosphere, using real data and numbers. the concern that we had was that without and in the that -- absence of data decisions, they are simply responding to the cry -- crisis atmosphere that was there. putting themselves on the road in the panic that would follow the uss ronald reagan was one of the ships already there. we do not have lingering effects of radiological contamination. we have gone through our own individual monitoring and we are satisfied. next slide. long-term, what this tends to do is reinforce the procedures we had in place for contamination. it recognizes that for air breathing equipment, small performance parts, when you needed to repair them, they required a special engine. we do not want to mix and match the parts and components that were exposed. we want to keep them isolated until they could be decontaminated. next slide. what you get out of this is the important role that people play in this discussion. this is one of

people in fukushima find out how much radiation they might have faced. we will tell you what the figures mean and what they don't. >>> foreign direct investment in china fell for the first time in 28 months in november. investment from overseas stood at $8.757 billion. down 9.8% from a year ago. the figure is the first year-on-year drop since july of 2009. direct investment from the united states in the january-to-november period fell more than 23% from the same period last year. >> translator: the main factor for the decline is weak u.s. economic growth. and investment from european firms is also on the downturn, due to uncertainty over the regional economic outlook amid the credit crisis. >> the announcement follows a release of other data showing china's exports slowed for three straight months. our reporter in beijing says these trends could raise further concerns about the chinese economy. >>> japan's industry ministry and tokyo electric power company have come up with a new timetable for decommissioning the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. un

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but in fukushima prefecture this year, worries about radiation are keeping many kids indoors. to remedy that, about 30 children from iwaki city trofled to a popular ski resort about 200 kilometers away from their homes. since march, a lot of children have not been allowed to play outside because of fears from radiation leaking from the fukushima daiichi crippled power plant. the kids made up for lost time. frolicking in the snow for hours. >>> mai shoji is up next with weather. >>> hi there and welcome back. let's take a look at your weather conditions. let's first start off with india. has a threat of facing this cyclone. this is just over bay of bengal right now. let's look at this cyclonic system. by wednesday, local time, it looks like it's going to be strengthening. and keeping and maintaining its strength. it will be making landfall in india. most likely and wind speed as of now is 65 kilometers per hour. we're talking about sustained winds of 50 to 60 kilometers per hour. already affecting much of the andaman and nicobar islands. and this very pink will be traveling in

even in the event of an accident, radiation level can be maintained low. and this was technically confirmed by experts. with this we had a meeting today at nuclear disaster response headquarters chaired by myself. this meeting confirmed that the reactors achieved a state of cold shutdown. the accident is now under control. and the phase two of this should bring the plant accident under control is complete. >> people who live near fukushima diiachi are reacting to the prime minister's announcement. many are not satisfied. people who had to leave their town because it is inside a no-entry zone and they went en masse to the city of kazo near tokyo. >> translator: who measured the temperatures near the reactors? i don't know if i can trust them. >> translator: we won't be able to return home in my lifetime. it's absolutely impossible. >> this woman and her 10-year-old son evacuated their hometown. their home is 4.5 kilometers from fukushima. when she returned home, radiation levels in the area were high. 20 microsieverts per hour. >> translator: we just can't

doctors say it's unlikely his disease was caused by radiation exposure. he led the efforts to stabilize the plant after the nuclear accident in march. the company relieved him from his post last week. >> rachel ferguson is up next with weather. 5 >>> hi there. time for the weekend's forecast. we start in eastern asia where things are once again going to be dry and cold across much of the east asian continent. a few snow showers down towards the southwest of china and then further south we will find continuing rain showers over eastern indochina. mostly vietnam getting hit with those, and the then the philippines continuing to see heavy rain, particularly up here for northern luzon. as for japan, well, wintry precipitation coming to northern portions then actually quite far down the sea of japan side of the country. meanwhile, it will be nice and dry and sunny also for the pacific edge. temperaturewise, 9 forecast for tokyo on saturday. 2 in seoul with 5 in beijing. now, 5 is also forecast in shanghai. temperatures are really dipping down here in eastern c

doctors say it's unlikely his disease was caused by radiation exposure. he led the efforts to stabilize the plant after the nuclear accident in march. the company relieved him from his post last week. >>> farmer in a coastal area hit by the march tsunami will build one of japan's largest facilities for growing vegetables without soil. the seawater, one-third of farmland where about 1,800 sectors in the region. farmers in the area plan to build a facility that uses liquid nutrients and water instead of soil. they hope to start operations in 2013. rachel ferguson is up next with weather. >>> hi there. time for the weekend's forecast. we start in eastern asia where things are once again going to be dry and cold across much of the east asian continent. a few snow showers down towards the southwest of china and then further south we will find continuing rain showers over eastern indochina. mostly vietnam getting hit with those, and the then the philippines continuing to see heavy rain, particularly up here for northern luzon. as for japan, well, wintry precipi

radiation levels at the perimeter of the compound remain below one millisievert per year. now the government plans to look at the area after the zept. >>> the operator of the crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant has decided not to release decontaminated water into the ocean for the time being. tokyo electric power company or tepco is in the process of decontaminating radioactive water amassed in the basements of the reactor buildings. the water is then being recycled as coolant for the reactors, but underground water continues to flow into the basements. the amount of decontaminated water is exceeding the initial estimates. currently, tepco is storing the treated water in tanks on the plant's premises. tepco had been considering discharging the treated water into the sea, but after protests from a national association of fisheries cooperatives, it has postponed the decision. tepco announced on thursday that it will not release water into the sea until it implements three measures. these include blocking underground water from entering the basements, also improvin

even in the event of an accident, radiation level at the periphery of the plant can be maintained low. and this was technically confirmed by experts. with this we had a meeting today at nuclear disaster response headquarters chaired by myself. this meeting confirmed that the reactors achieved a state of cold shutdown. the accident is now under control. and the phase two of this should bring the plant accident under control is complete. >> people who live near fukushima diiachi are reacting to the prime minister's announcement. many are not satisfied. people who had to leave their town because it is inside a no-entry zone and they went en masse to the city of kazo near tokyo. >> translator: who measured the temperatures near the reactors? i don't know if i can trust them. >> translator: we won't be able to return home in my lifetime. it's absolutely impossible. >> this woman and her 10-year-old son evacuated their hometown. of okuma. their home is 4.5 kilometers from fukushima daiichi. when she returned home, radiation levels in the area were high. 20 microsieverts per hour. >> transla

strontium causes internal radiation exposure. the company is trying to determine whether the water reached the sea. the utility said at about 11:30 a.m. sunday a water leak was spotted in a device to remove salt from contaminated water from which some radioactive material had already been removed. tepco said the leak was stopped after the device was turned off, but at least 45 tons of water containing radioactive materials may have leaked out with some portion possibly reaching a ditch outside the facility. the level of radioactive cesium had been reduced to 45 becquerels per cubic centimeter after the treatment. but the water is believed to have contained 130,000 becquerels per cubic centimeter of radioactive strontium. the ditch connects to the sea about 600 meters away. the power company is piling up sandbags in the ditch to prevent the water from flowing into the ocean. the water is used to cool down the reactors in the power plant. the utility says the leak does not pose any problems for the process. >>> workers carried out

the area has high radiation levels, making it impossible for people to work, whether a radiation resistant robot can be developed is key. even more challenging task is removal of the fuel. a remote controlled robotic arm will be needed. the 1979 three mile island nuclear reactor accident in the u.s. offers some hints. this image shows a portion of the molten fuel that was removed from three mile island, provided to japan from the u.s. for research purposes. at that time, a drill was used to gouge and remove the fuel. in order to understand what types of removal devices to develop, this fuel should be examined closely to identify how hard it is, for example. however, a lot of the technology will be developed for the first time in the world. there is a limit to what japan can do alone. japan should call on the world for cooperation and engage the iaea in an international effort to advance this work. >>> "newsline" is the place to turn to for the latest on japan post march 11th. we have two segments offering two unique perspectives on the fallout from the earthquake and tsunami. "nuclear watc

this positions vertically as it does now does not at all radiate strictly downward. as you can see on the figures 2 and 3. this is the field distribution on the directional antenna that is there now. mr. kelly standing underneath on the ground, presumably, he cannot fly so he is measuring nothing because there is nothing. so stating that the measurements show that there is only one field of the f.c.c. limit, of course. either he knew what he was doing or he didn't know at all what he was doing. there were similar affidavits of safety sore cellular antennas. they provide the similar calculations. i have looked over many of them. after the antennas are installed and become operational, the radiation density can be measured, but no one has provided any evidence of such measurements have been done. may i finish the paragraph? vice president miguel: thank you. >> thank you. and the rest is in the paperwork you already have. vice president miguel: correct. vice president miguel: rabbi, laura, peter keene, elsa, hirsch. as was mentioned before, there is a one-minute time li

for the survivors, there's still radiation concerns.e are going to share our insights on the disaster. >>> we look at the biggest stories from 2011 from correspondents who covered the stories firsthand. we want to go to the tsunami in japan. no one can forget the 30-foot wave that destroyed the city in minutes. here is what caused the most fear. the fukushima daiichi power plant. officials put it on par with the 1996 chernobyl disaster. a 9.0 earthquake that hit the island. >> if there is one story that will always be memorable to me, it's covering the tsunami in japan. not those massive scenes of devastation. when i sat down with a young mother who was going over how many family members she lost and she started counting on her hand and she ran out and she had to keep counting. she lost seven immediate family members. among them, her 8-year-old son. that's when it really struck home to me that this story was not about all the structures that were lost, it was about the lives, the loved ones and the victims who would forever be impacted

the area has high radiation levels making it impossible for people to work, whether radiation-resistant robot can be developed is key. an even more challenging task is the removal of the fuel. a remote-controlled robotic arm will be needed. the 1979 three mile island nuclear reactor accidents in the u.s. offers some hints. this image shows a portion of the molten fuel that was removed from three mile island, provided to japan from the u.s. for research purposes. at that time, a drill was used to gouge and remove the fuel. in order to understand what types of removal devices to develop, this fuel should be examined closely. to identify how hard it is for example. however, a lot of the technology will be developed for the first time in the world. there's a limit to what japan can do alone. japan should call on the world for cooperation and engage the iaea in an international effort to advance this work. >> "newsline" is the place to turn to for the latest on japan post march 11th. we have two segments offering two unique perspectives on the fallout from the earthquake and tsunami. "nuclea

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the area has high radiation levels making it impossible for people to work, whether radiation-resistant robot can be developed is key. an even more challenging task is the removal of the fuel. a remote-controlled robotic arm will be needed. the 1979 three mile island nuclear reactor accidents in the u.s. offers some hints. this image shows a portion of the molten fuel that was removed from three mile island, provided to japan from the u.s. for research purposes. at that time, a drill was used to gouge and remove the fuel. in order to understand what types of removal devices to develop, this fuel should be examined closely. to identify how hard it is for example. however, a lot of the technology will be developed for the first time in the world. there's a limit to what japan can do alone. japan should call on the world for cooperation and engage the iaea in an international effort to advance this work. >> "newsline" is the place to turn to for the latest on japan post march 11th. we have two segments offering two unique perspectives on the fallout from the earthquake and tsunami. "nuclea

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this is most people think that radiation produces cancer after ten or twenty years you know you know john wayne died all those years after that that that nuclear test in a while meter you tara where was. but you're saying that there's an instantaneous response relatively you are not seeing an instantaneous but we saw after chernobyl high rates of thyroid cancer and leukemia. and. these occurred within a year or two for this you know we have to remember that the highest cause of death except for accidents in children is cancer and so we're in a if you have a three year old or a five year old or a one year old who has cancer they obviously didn't take twenty years to develop but yeah you're right how much longer might the world in particular nature and future generations feel the effects of focus you will see zero proof for instance cesium one thirty seven instruments you ninety have a half life of approximately thirty years and it takes ten half lives for an isotope to be completely gone so you know ten times thirty is three hundred years or three centuries. so what's what can be talk

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engineers abandon the plant as the trouble started and other staff delayed reporting significant radiation leaks to discuss more on this i'm joined by professor christopher busting the scientific secretary of the european committee on a radiation risks thanks for joining us so the report claims operators failed to respond properly and you said before that the authorities had been lax and slow in handling the situation to what extent do you feel the assessments been confirmed by these findings well i think my assessment has been confirmed one hundred percent but i do have to say that i don't think. that this inquiry has gone far enough because there are lots of questions that they haven't asked in that lots of questions that still haven't been answered what are some of those well the main the most important one is it has to do with the the health effects of the contamination that it it's kind of assumed that everybody knows that they use health effects so i'm not going to be serious but i just like i said before that this was a much more serious incident than anyone. was suggesting that the

fuel all right we have to leave it there professor pressed her basket of european committee on a radiation arrest thanks for your time. north koreans finally allay their late leader to arrest wednesday but the world still wants to know what lies ahead in a post camera showing in all north korea has annoyed and successor and youngest son is now control but there is little known about him or his wary of an ocean away back to score to uncover more about the man who has an intense act to follow. can the death of the north korean dictator has raised questions and hopes over whether the dictatorship one of the last in the world will follow or will this extremely close to society remain isolated and it's new leader to so little is known about the lately to his great successor his third and youngest son kim turning is a bit of a dark horse even his age remains a subject of speculation his thought to be twenty seven all twenty eight years of his new ascension to power increases the media hunger for information about him so his expensive education in switzerland suddenly tracked it's a lot more inte

those who got radiation only often had problems similar to those who got chemotherapy and radiation. that suggests chemotherapy is not solely to blame for the side effects. >> the study found no evidence of cognitive problems from hormonal therapies. doctors say the next step is to figure out why these treatments vary when it comes to memory issues. >>> first lady michelle obama is jumping for joy over a new world record. she confirmed her bid to break the record for the most people doing jumping jacks in 24 hours was a success. national geographic kids magazine helped to organize the effort in october as part of her "let's move" campaign. more than three and a thousand people took part, shattering the old record. -- more than 300,000 people took part shattering the old record. >>> there is a list of the hottest women of all time. topping the list is tv and screen actress jennifer aniston. she says she is flattered but her pick would be between brigitte bardot and gloria steinem. here are the top five from the magazine. if you would like to see the full list, go to wjla.com. >> 2012

radiation alert went off at a moscow airport. they found 18 pieces of metal hidden in a passengers luggage. it contained radio active ice sew taupes. gauges show radiation levels were 20-times higher than normal. >>> the work to reopen a southern california freeway after that big tanker truck fire is facing another delay. take a look at that. crews have began dismantling parts. originally the freeway was supposed to reopen by this afternoon but workers had to stop the demolition after finding potentially hazardous phone wires. at & t is working to find a solution. for now the freeway will remain closed indefinitely. >>> cal osha is investigating the death of a maintenance worker killed if a workplace accident. investigators say the man was working under a bus yesterday when it rolled off the concrete risers and killed him. late last night he was is identified at walter of costello. >> failure on whatever the bus was on was mechanical failure is part of the bus. that's where we try to determine how this accident occurred. >> now t

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