Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Japan radioactive cloud yet to reach Vietnam

Radioactive cloud (for illustration purposes only)
The radioactive cloud from Japan’s Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant that suffered explosions several days ago has been moving southeast since March 19 but it has yet to reach Vietnam.  This is a confirmation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology yesterday.  Under the Prime Minister’s instructions, the ministry has ordered its affiliates to conduct radioactive tests on Vietnamese citizens returning home from Japan.  The ministry is coordinating with other relevant agencies in making plans to cope with the impacts of the harmful cloud in case it reaches Vietnam in the coming time.  Four Vietnamese who retuned home from Japan were tested for radioactive inflection on Friday and the test results showed none of them was inflected with I-131 and Cs-137 radioactive isotopes.  In an effort to protect people against nuclear dangers, the “Responding to a nuclear emergency” manual of the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has been translated into Vietnamese and posted on the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety’s website at www.varans.vn for reference, the ministry said.
source: tuoitrenews

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