IL Emergency Management Agency Detects Radioactive Material from Japanese Reactor in Air, Grass Samples

SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–March 30, 2011.  Minute levels of radioactive materials believed to be related to the troubled Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan have been detected by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA).  Radioactive iodine was found in grass clippings collected in Will County and in an air sample collected at IEMA’s radiochemistry lab in Springfield.