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Japanese Plate Tells You If Your Sushi Is Radioactive [1]

"The Fukushima Plate is tableware with its own built-in safety mechanism. Underneath the plate is a radiation meter that logs whether your sushi has absorbed too much seaborne radiation from the Fukushima disaster earlier this year."



"You set your own preferred levels of radioactivity, then glowing rings round the outside of the plate light up to warn you if your fish is toxic.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2052784/The-sushi-platter... [2]

The London Daily Mail had the story October 24, 2011. [3]

SEE ALSO:

"Retail Outlet Displays Radiation Levels of Produce" (Asahi Shimbun) [4]

Disasters [5]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Food [7]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [8]
International [9]
Public [10]
Source: London Daily Mail [3], 10/26/2011
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/japanese-plate-tells-you-if-your-sushi-radioactive [2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2052784/The-sushi-platter-tells-dinners-radioactive.html#ixzz1btJCPGa1" [3] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2052784/The-sushi-platter-tells-dinners-radioactive.html [4] http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ2011102315550 [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/food [8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/nuclear-power/radiation [9] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international [10] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81