Japanese dealers selling 'radioactive cars'

Yep it is exactly what you think. Some exports have "slipped through the cracks." Many exports have been slipping from Japan to China for months. China will buy and sell anything-especially to Americans.

The Fukushima nuclear site after the tsunami Photo: EPA

By Julian Ryall in Tokyo

7:00AM BST 26 Oct 2011

The vehicles appear to be outwardly sound but were owned by people living close to the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant when it was destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Others come from second-hand dealers in the north-east of Japan, with a report in the Asahi newspaper suggesting that a minivan that was originally registered in the town of Iwaki, on the edge of the 18-mile exclusion zone around the plant, tested positive for 110 microsieverts of radiation per hour. The Japanese government initially set a level of 5 microsieverts as the limit for cars to be exported to other countries, but in August tightened the rules to 0.3 microsieverts

telegraph.co.uk

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Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on January 23, 2012 at 3:43am: Good reason for Americans to buy American :)

Comment by theGuild on January 21, 2012 at 4:17pm: can look on the bright side....being they didn't wait 30yrs to declassify the info :)

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Comment by DVDTRUTH.COM on January 21, 2012 at 2:24pm: That's crazy. Doesn't surprise me though.

Comment by TommyD on January 21, 2012 at 12:45pm: Zoom Zoom

Comment by Cryptocurrency on January 21, 2012 at 12:42pm: Ha! Introducing Mitsubishi, Radiance, an economy car that will make YOU feel like a new person. Going through changes? Mitsubishi, Radiance, you aint seen nothing yet.

Comment by TommyD on January 21, 2012 at 12:40pm: Look on the bright side..with all this radioactive contamination some of us are bound to mutate some super powers....

Comment by TommyD on January 21, 2012 at 12:38pm: the Radmobile..it takes a licking and keeps on ticking (on the Geiger counter that is)

Comment by Cryptocurrency on January 21, 2012 at 12:31pm: They need to market it properly. Design a car called the mutater.

Comment by Anthony Kimbrough on January 21, 2012 at 11:34am: I wonder about computers and other car parts. I think a good part of the seafood comes from Japan, what doesn't come lubricated from the Gulf.