Radioactive Used Cars on Sale in Japan
If you are shopping for a used car in Japan, be warned. It may be radioactive! Dishonest car dealers are selling cars contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdown.
The cars were supposed to have been destroyed. However, some dealers registered cars under new license plates and sold them according to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. Dealers initially tried to export the cars to Russia, but the police turned them back after finding they were radioactive. Testing at the docks in Japan has stopped exports of the contaminated cars.
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One van that was re-registered and sold within Japan was found to emit 110 microsieverts of radiation an hour, which is 300 times the legal limit.
This story is on the NBCLosAngeles.com site.
