South Korea to use radiation detectors, food from home at Tokyo Games


FILE PHOTO: The logo is displayed at the entrance of the main buildng at J-Village, a national soccer training complex that used to serve as an operation base for battling Japan's nuclear disaster, in Naraha Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan July 30, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato/

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Olympic committee plans to buy radiation detectors and ship homegrown ingredients to Japan for its athletes at the Tokyo Games because of worries local food may be contaminated by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japan has posted data to show the country is safe from Fukushima radiation and many countries have lifted Fukushima-related food restrictions.

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