Russia sends back to Japan each month dozens of radioactive cars that it imports. Apparently the United States does not even check if cars are radioactive or not. The author: “I’m not surprised, I don’t think we are even monitoring the fish from the Pacific, let alone the used car imports. I wish we were doing more, but I would be happy to hear that we were even testing fish.”

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A s our readers may be aware, on multiple occasions ov er the last two
y ears Russia has made data public on contaminated imports from Japan
which hav e been sent back due to radiation concerns. In early A ugust,
Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s federal customer rights protection agency told
Russian media outlets that some 1 1 2 contaminated batch lots of goods
from Japan had been barred from entering the country after failing
radiation tests.
In one Russian report, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishckenko
said the agency was still concerned about the import of contaminated used
cars from Japan. Ev ery month some 1 8,000 v ehicles from Japan are
imported into Russia, and ev ery month dozens of them hav e been sent
back due to failed radiation tests.
A ccording to RIA Nov osti, many Japanese used cars enter Russia through
the seaport at V ladiv ostok. “[Our] specialists keep detecting used and
disassembled cars, specialized equipment, and containers with spare parts
that show radioactiv e contamination,” a Russian customs official told RIA
Nov osti. “Since the disaster at Fukushima [Daiichi], 697 such items hav e
been detected [at the port of V ladiv ostok], 591 were banned from
entrance.”
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2. Naturally , I wanted to see if I could get the same information from the
United States Customs and Border Patrol A gency . I contacted them and
spoke with one of their Public A ffairs officials. I requested the total
number of v ehicles and shipping containers from Japan which had failed
radiation tests for a period between January of 201 1 and to date. I was
first told that the information requested was not immediately av ailable,
and that they would be unable to meet my press deadline. A fter I followed
up a few day s later and asked whether or not I would hav e to file a FOIA
request to get this information, I was told that they had checked with
multiple offices within the CBP and unfortunately “the specific
information” I had requested was not tracked, instead of not immediately
av ailable.
A ll this has brought me to wonder whether or not we are being v igilant or
whether we are asleep at the wheel. I spoke to A rnie Gundersen with
Fairewinds Energy Education to get his take. He said, “I’m not surprised, I
don’t think we are ev en monitoring the fish from the Pacific, let alone the
used car imports. I wish we were doing more, but I would be happy to
hear that we were ev en testing fish.”
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The charge codes listed include only one radionuclide, Cesium-137. (Look for the
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