article_snippet.sent: This is despite radiation levels in the region starting to fall.
article_snippet.sent: Reports claim the soil and water in the region still contains high levels of radiation which makes the clean-up effort difficult.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The relationship between radiation and numbers started off negative the first summer, but the strength of the relationship has actually increased each year,Dr Mousseau said.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Tim Mousseau and Tim Mousseau team made the findings using thermoluminescent detectors, which use gamma-radiation-sensitive crystals (shown) to measure radiation doses in individual subjects living in the wild .
article_snippet.sent: Shown are radiation levels immediately after the accident in 2011 .
highlights_snippet.sent: This is despite radiation levels in the region starting to fall .
  