No Extraordinary Incidents Reported After Hamadori Eartquake

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) - No extraordinary incidents were reported
in the vicinity of the Fukushima Daiichi, Onagawa and Tokai nuclear plants in
Japan in the wake of the Hamadori earthquake on April 13.

Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Dr Maximus Ongkili
said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had reported that generally,
the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was still serious, but the
equipment and electricity supply in the area had been restored.

"Besides, IAEA's monitoring also found that up to April 14, the dose of
radiation at the Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki ports, as well as Narita and
Haneda airports, is lower than 0.199 Sievert per hour, which is a normal and
safe level for human health," he said in a statement, here, today.

Ongkili said environmental emergency response centres under the World
Meteorological Organisation anticipated the radioactive substance emitted from
the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant from April 14 to 17, would be heading east
and northeast and would continue heading north and northwest.

The movement of the radioactive particles also showed that it covered the
eastern and northern areas of Japan, northwest of the Pacific Ocean and Okhotsk
Ocean, he said.


Ongkili also said that the ministry, through the Atomic Energy Licencing
Board (AELB), Malaysian Nuclear Agency and Meteorology Department, were
still actively monitoring the situation following the nuclear accident in Japan.

So far, no radioactive contamination were detected, including at airports or
in rain water, sea water, tap water and soil in Malaysia, he added.