UN says most Fukushima radiation doses below norms

May 23, 2012, 9:17 am by Associated Press Healthwire

GENEVA (AP) -- A year after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima, the World Health Organization says several areas near the plant had radiation above cancer-causing levels but most of the nation did not....

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