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Sabtu, 19 Maret 2011

Water, Vegetables, and Milk Contaminated Radiation

Miyagi, Kompas - Japanese authorities on Saturday (19 / 3), to detect nuclear radiation levels outside the normal limits in dairy products, vegetables, and also water. Distribution of radiation is also detected in the outer radius of 80 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear power is problematic. Arif Ahmad
However, a spokesman for the Government of Japan, Yukio Edano, in Osaka on Saturday, states, types of food that's not a threat to the human body. "However, radiation levels had exceeded the allowable limit regulations in Japan," said Edano.
Nuclear radiation leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, located in the areas most severely hit by the tectonic earthquake on Friday last week. The roof and walls of nuclear power plants with six nuclear reactors was cracked by an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale.
The tsunami after a quake also hit nuclear power plant and helped make the cooling system can not run normally. This causes the temperature heats up and delivery of hydrogen gas. Damage to the water storage system, which acts harbored radiation leak, helped create a radiation leak into space.
The Japanese government said the 30-km radius from the location of nuclear power plant was not safe to live. However, the U.S. asserts, is not safe radius is 80 km from the location of nuclear power plants was.
U.S. states that after conducting its own investigation about the dangers of radiation. Two trials produce recommendations, which delivered the U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman, Thursday. He asked that residents avoid the area in a radius of 80 km.
There are four prefectures of the most severe earthquake and tsunami hit, ie, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, and Ibaraki, located in the northeast of the island Honsu. According to Edano, the tainted milk products found in Fukushima Prefecture.
Found in tap Tokyo
Vegetables contaminated with a type of mustard that nuclear radiation is found in Ibaraki, Fukushima neighbors. Dairy products are found in the outer radius of 30 km, which is declared safe by the Japanese authorities.
The news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) also quoted an official from Japan's Ministry of Science. Mentioned, the water that flowed from the taps have also been found in Tokyo and in several other nearby Fukushima prefecture, such as Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi, Saitama, Chiba and Niigata.
Tokyo is about 250 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants or more or less equal to the distance between Jakarta and Cirebon. However, the ministry said the radiation was still below normal limits.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has sent a team to Tokyo pemonitor. Friday, the IAEA said the radiation was found in Tokyo, but not harmful to the human body. However, Britain, France, and several other countries have asked their citizens to get out of Tokyo.
Edano already requested the Ministry of Health to check the exact location of contaminated dairy products and vegetables, the distribution system, and requested the prohibition of the sale of these contaminated products.
"The government will do its best to prevent the emergence of health problems and will make best efforts to resolve this," he said.
He also asked consumers to remain calm. Edano added, although consumers drinking the contaminated milk for a year, the level of radiation would still be equivalent to CT scans aka X-ray radiation generated during ongoing.
However, the IAEA provides a separate statement. "Although radiation iodine (radioactive iodine) has a short life, which is about eight days, and go away naturally in a matter of weeks, there remains a risk to health if there is radiation of iodine in food is absorbed into the body through the consumption," the official statement IAEA.
IAEA added, when the cumulative radiation was piling up, can cause cancer of the thyroid gland. This is especially dangerous for children and young people.
Various news agencies have typed the potential of citizen and consumer panic about the development of that radiation. A number of countries in Asia said it would examine all food imported from Japan, which followed the European Union.
Related problems and dangerous products contaminated with radiation exposure, the Japanese authorities earlier this week asking residents near the location of nuclear power plants consume iodine to mitigate the adverse effects of nuclear radiation.
Not enough open
Although the Japanese government said it would do the best, there are also complaints that they were not quite open about nuclear radiation leak. Hideki Mukaitsubo, President of Fukushima Prefecture, Minami Izumizaki Dairy in the Village, about 60 km from the plant location, confusion.
"We have stopped shipping products (contaminated milk). I do not know what I will do the next day, "said Mukaitsubo. He criticized the government of not being transparent about the contaminated product sampling.
Yukihiro Ebisawa, an official at the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives of Ibaraki Prefecture, said it has received orders halt to harvest vegetables. "We're worried .... I hope the situation can be controlled immediately, "he said.
Concerns do not just happen to Japanese citizens. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto planning a meeting soon. The foreign minister also called for Japan to provide information about the development of radiation.
Developments in nuclear power plant about the damage that still has not convinced about its completion. About 304 workers continue to struggle to stop the leakage of radiation. The main actions which continue to be done is to drain the water into the NPP in order to cooling and reduction potential radiation leaks.
However, from Paris reported, although the situation does not develop into worse direction, the situation in the nuclear power plant is still far from safe. It was declared the Director-General of the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), Jean-Christophe Niel said Saturday.
To overcome that crisis, Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan of the Democratic Party of Japan called for partnerships with politicians from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to overcome the chaos of post-disaster. However, the appeal was dismissed by senior LDP. (AP / AFP / REUTERS / MON)

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