Re: US Ambassador to Japan Foley wants incinerator shut down

[Alan Watson <alanwatson@gn.apc.org>]

>      Preliminary data from a joint study of emissions by U.S.
>              and Japanese investigators showed the incinerator churns
>              out as much as 58 picograms of dioxin per cubic meter of
>              air. Japanese agencies consider anything above 0.8
>              picograms (less than one-trillionth of a gram) as unsafe.

Presumably this section of the report is an error in the original copy?  
As incinerators go it would be doing very well otherwise...

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