Nuclear fallout in farmland in eastern Japan is worse than expected. Now officials have a map of exactly where they should concentrate regulatory and clean-up efforts. In July the Japanese government expanded its Fukushima Evacuation Zone and banned shipments of beef that consumed radioactive hay from the area. But until now, officials have had to rely almost exclusively on sporadic soil samples to make such decisions.

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