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IEMA Continues Sampling to Track Japanese Radiation

SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2011.  The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) today said the latest round of testing to assess the extent of radioactivity in Illinois from the Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan found trace amounts of radioactive iodine in air, grass, milk and rainwater samples as well as minute levels of cesium in some milk samples.

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The agency stressed that these findings are still far below established limits and present no health hazard to citizens…

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