Hundreds of British pound of pertly caught fish are express - mailed to a construction in the small town of Onjuku , Japan , everyday . There , a team quickly slices and dice the fish into fillet . But this is no kitchen , and the fresh fish are definitely not for white plague .
The building belong to the quasi - governmental Marine Ecology Research Institute , and they are testing the Pisces for radioactivity . 53 % of the fish sampled near Fukushima in the first three calendar month after the nuclear disaster tested above the safety boundary . Now that figure is only 2.2 % .
Still , the science lab is busy with oeuvre everyday . CBS Newsreports on what it ’s like to exercise there .
Onjuku is an quondam fishing port and a guide like to point out that the locals are more adept at handling fish than researcher — so it ’s locals who exercise in the prep area . clothe in disposable proscenium , retired fishermen and housewives photograph , measure and weigh each sample before vex down to business . Like practiced eating place hands , they quickly trim away heads , fins , electronic organ , skin and pearl ; only edible portions are ascertain for radiation . The relatively appetizing - looking fillets are then ground into unappetizing moderate fish and packed in baggies .
“ Sometimes we are tempted to take a sharpness , ” one employee evidence us , adding that he resists the itch .
[ CBS News ]
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