Cesium detected in a Miyagi boar

SENDAI — Radioactive cesium more than four times the safety limit has been detected in the meat of a wild boar killed in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, officials said.

It is the first time radioactive contamination exceeding the limit has been found in a wild animal or bird in the prefecture, the officials said Friday.

They said they will ask residents not to eat meat from wild animals or birds.

The meat of the boar, which local hunters caught in the mountains in Kakuda on Aug. 7 as part of a city extermination request, was found to have 2,200 becquerels of cesium per kilogram. The provisional safety limit is 500 becquerels per kg.

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The science ministry has published a map on cumulative radiation estimates and hot spots five months since start of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

In giving estimates for 50 locations in the no-entry zone for the first time, the ministry said Friday a spot in the town of Okuma, 3 km southwest of the plant, had an estimated accumulative radiation of 278 millisieverts.

The annual radiation exposure limit for humans is 1 millisievert.

The government has urged people living in areas around the plant, where annual exposure is likely to exceed 20 millisieverts, to evacuate.

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