A VOA reporter talked to people at a Little League game on Sunday and found that none of them knew about the radioactive hot spot.

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Two mothers at the ballpark expressed surprise when told about the soil.

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The women say they have heard many general reports about radiation since the disaster in March. They felt they could not be overly concerned about those reports or they would not be able to go on with their daily lives.

Last week private citizens found abnormal levels of radiation in the air on the path to a Tokyo school. However, government officials say the cause was under the floor of a nearby house: old bottles containing radium powder. Radium was used in the past to make watch and clock faces glow in the dark.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says Japan must avoid becoming too "conservative" in its clean-up efforts.

Japanese officials have ordered an increase in radiation testing, but they say hot spots outside Fukushima are not a cause for worry. They say no one spends enough time at the sites to get enough radiation to cause harm. They also say the small dosimeters that some private citizens use to measure radiation can give a wrong reading.

And that's the VOA Special English Health Report. I'm Jim Tedder.