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发帖数: 3464 | 1 Radiation from nuclear plants damaged in Japan's earthquake is unlikely to
reach US territory in harmful amounts, US nuclear officials say.
"Given the thousands of miles between the two countries, Hawaii, Alaska, the
US Territories and the US west coast are not expected to experience any
harmful levels of radioactivity," the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) said in a statement on Sunday.
"All the available information indicates weather conditions have taken the
small releases from the Fukushima reactors out to sea away from the
population," the statement read.
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The office also said it sent two boiling-water reactor experts as part of a
US Agency for International Development (USAID) emergency team helping
respond to the crisis in Japan.
The NRC is coordinating with the US Department of Energy and other federal
agencies in providing "whatever assistance the Japanese government requests"
as they respond to conditions at several nuclear power plant sites
following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the statement read.
Japan is battling a feared meltdown of two reactors at a quake-hit nuclear
plant, in the wake of the disaster.
An explosion at the ageing Fukushima No 1 atomic plant blew apart the
building housing one of its reactors on Saturday, one day after the biggest
quake ever recorded in Japan unleashed a monster tsunami.
The emergency escalated on Sunday as crews struggled to prevent overheating
at a second reactor where the cooling system has also failed, and the
government warned that it too could be hit with a blast. |
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