By SONOKO MIYAZAKI/ Staff Writer
HIROSHIMA—People who were indoors when the atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been exposed to a radiation dose 29 percent higher than previously believed, a study group said June 4.
At an atomic bomb disease research meeting here, the group cited the overestimation of the shield effect of structures as a reason for the underestimated radiation levels.
In the study, the group reanalyzed the causal link between the frequency of (...)