Scientists setting radiation exposure limits took utility money: probe

TOKYO — Influential scientists who help set Japan’s radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world’s top academic group on radiation safety.

The potential conflict of interest is revealed in one sentence buried in a 600-page parliamentary investigation into last year’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster and pointed out to The Associated Press by a medical doctor on the 10-person investigation panel.
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