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"MITO (Kyodo) -- A federation of seafood processing firms in Ibaraki Prefecture on Tuesday demanded about 1.85 billion yen in damages from Tokyo Electric Power Co., claiming their businesses have been hurt in the wake of the nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. After receiving a written claim over sales losses amid fears of seafood contamination by radiation at the federation's office in Mito, Ibaraki, Kaoru Takagi, a senior TEPCO official, said the utility will decide how to deal with it based on the government guidelines for nuclear damages. The damages for three months from March include about 1.14 billion yen covering such losses as costs for disposal of processed seafood products rejected by markets and retailers. The remainder is for radiation measurement and leave compensation. Involved in the claim are 159 firms and two cooperatives. If more losses emerge, additional claims will be made, the federation said."

"A federation of seafood processing firms in Ibaraki Prefecture has demanded about ¥1.85 billion in damages from Tokyo Electric Power Co., claiming their businesses have been hurt amid the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. After receiving a written claim Tuesday at the federation's office in Mito, Ibaraki, over sales losses amid fears of seafood contaminated by radiation, Kaoru Takagi, a senior Tepco official, said the utility will decide how to deal with it based on government guidelines for nuclear damages. The damages for three months from March include about ¥1.14 billion and cover such losses as costs for disposal of processed seafood products rejected by markets and retailers. The remainder is for radiation measurement and leave compensation."

A BAN on seafood coming from an area near the Dounreay nuclear site is to stay in place, following a Food Standards Agency review. The restriction, preventing the removal of fish and shellfish from a 2km exclusion zone, was imposed in 1997 after the discovery of radioactive particles on the seabed. The order, under the Food and Environment Protection Act, was to ensure any seafood contaminated by irradiated nuclear fuel did not enter the food chain. Last year, Dounreay began work using remotely operated vehicles to remove the worst of the particles that have caused concern for more than quarter of a century. Up to £25 million will be spent on covering an area the size of 60 football pitches and on monitoring up to the 2020s.

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico: After gathering samples from an underwater nuclear bomb target - the USS Killen -- since 1999 in the small island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, University of Georgia Ecologist James Porter thought he would find evidence of radioactive material but instead discovered that unexploded munitions in the waters around the island are leaking cancer causing matter. These carcinogenic materials are absorbed by marine life and could very well be transferred to humans when they eat seafood, fished in the area. In addition, data revealed that the closer corals and marine life were to unexploded bombs from the World War II vessel and the surrounding target range, the higher the rates of carcinogenic materials.