Ripe for recovery: How super sweet peaches are helping Fukushima's farming sector

They are the best. I buy them every year.

No, thank you Fukushima! I'll pass on the radiated food.

Some parts of Fukushima is contaminated but the majority of the land mass is not but the post does not give the location of the farm.

Radiation doesn't stay in one place. It is transported by natural means. If it could reach US shores then it would be foolish to believe that it hasn't reached other parts of Fukushima or Japan in general!

I've been buying peaches from Fukushima since 2011. They are really quite good and cheap, too. But it's mainly to do my bit to help local farmers. It's sad that some people think everything from Fukushima is contaminated. It's a large prefecture.

Numan, I don't think you understand radiation. Try the peaches. One won't kill you.

@smartcus

Numan, I don't think you understand radiation. Try the peaches. One won't kill you.

How does radiation travel, and what kinds of damage can it do?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-5782367

Gamma rays travel like any other electromagnetic waves - cutting a fairly straight line through world. They can move through a vacuum, or through air or water. Radioactive materials are also tough to contain. Although they can be measured, and scrubbed off, they are made of tiny, invisible atoms. Once they are released into the air, they can get blown by the wind or rain down on the land, get absorbed or eaten by plants and animals, adhere to matter, and scatter out through the world.

Please enlighten us!

Was in Tokyo on 20200311. Felt the quake, saw the tsunami on TV, and followed the government's lies about the radiation. Afterward, when produce from Fukushima started appearing on grocery shelves, I -very much- wanted to buy them to help the farmers there, but was unwilling to do so, due to radiation concerns . . . a risk I'm not willing to take for myself nor my family. --- The article mentions the radiation, but then says the farmer then decided to grow the sweetest peaches possible, so people would buy them. ?? Whut?? Never mind the radiation; they're sweet! Illogical.

No way, this is nonsense. Trying to feed people with poison. Wasting time and money , Moving those people from fukushima is a better choice and will saves fukusima 's people lives and help their future.

@zichi

It doesn’t mention if the peaches are tested or not, does it?

How many radioactive contaminants are in the peaches?

We are none the wiser...