Information on Japanese Nuclear Crisis

Radioactive Cloud To Reach Europe This Wednesday No need to panic if you live outside of Japan — the spreading nuclear material is so minute that it didn’t even set off alerts over North America. Tiny amounts of radioactive material is now headed over the Atlantic to Europe. However, if you live in Japan, you should probably evacuate immediately if you live within a 100 mile radius of the Fukushima nuclear plants. Plutonium has now been found in the soil around the reactors. “A very slightly radioactive cloud coming from Japan will reach France Wednesday but it presents no health risks to the population here, the Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Security (IRSN) said in statements Tuesday. The cloud, which is heading here from Japan which March 11 had a national catastrophe, hit by an earthquake, Tsunami and radiation leaks, has a “very feeble” radioactive content and is of no danger to “adults, children and even unborn children,” officials from the Institute said on “France Info” radio. Experts at the IRSN said that health risks from the cloud were “unimaginable.” They remarked that the cloud had already crossed the United States and the radioactive levels were so low they didn’t [...]

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