A radiation detection station located in Sacramento (California) has found a small amount of radioactive material from the stricken nuclear plant in Fukushima (Japan), as reported by CNN. The channel quoted the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization (CTBTO), Tibor Tóth, who did not specify the exact amounts of radiation but ruled they could be considered harmful to human health.
The station in Sacramento, which belongs to the network of monitors with the CTBTO is to ensure that does not violate the treaty against nuclear weapons testing, detected small amounts of radionuclides, ie substances that emit radiation. However, the finding should not be cause for alarm, told CNN the officer of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Graham Andrews.
"For now, there is no concern in Japan or anywhere else about human health," said Andrews. The finding is consistent with the forecast released Thursday by meteorologists and health experts from the United States, which predicted that the first radioactive isotopes from the central Japan on Friday could reach the West Coast, although harmless doses to health .
As indicated by toxic waste leaked into the air in Fukushima were gone over the 8,000 km distance that separates Japan from the U.S. mainland, pushed by the currents of the upper layers of the atmosphere. That announcement resulted in many California stores began to run low stocks of potassium iodide pills, which prevents the absorption of radioactive iodine which reduces the threat of having thyroid cancer due to radioactivity.
The demand for such pills has exploded across the U.S. as announced on Tuesday Nukepills pharmaceutical firm. com noting it had exhausted its stock. Health authorities have warned against the preventive use of potassium iodide, since the drug may cause serious side effects, especially for people with allergies.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the area of that type of energy in the United States provides that the radioactivity reaching the coast would have no implications for health, recognizing that radiation levels increase with the passage of time due to worsening situation in Fukushima.
Japan rose on Friday a grade 5, the severity level of the nuclear accident in Fukushima, where efforts continue to supply electricity through external cables and cool the reactors with risky operations from trucks, after being damaged by last week earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast.
The station in Sacramento, which belongs to the network of monitors with the CTBTO is to ensure that does not violate the treaty against nuclear weapons testing, detected small amounts of radionuclides, ie substances that emit radiation. However, the finding should not be cause for alarm, told CNN the officer of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Graham Andrews.
"For now, there is no concern in Japan or anywhere else about human health," said Andrews. The finding is consistent with the forecast released Thursday by meteorologists and health experts from the United States, which predicted that the first radioactive isotopes from the central Japan on Friday could reach the West Coast, although harmless doses to health .
As indicated by toxic waste leaked into the air in Fukushima were gone over the 8,000 km distance that separates Japan from the U.S. mainland, pushed by the currents of the upper layers of the atmosphere. That announcement resulted in many California stores began to run low stocks of potassium iodide pills, which prevents the absorption of radioactive iodine which reduces the threat of having thyroid cancer due to radioactivity.
The demand for such pills has exploded across the U.S. as announced on Tuesday Nukepills pharmaceutical firm. com noting it had exhausted its stock. Health authorities have warned against the preventive use of potassium iodide, since the drug may cause serious side effects, especially for people with allergies.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the area of that type of energy in the United States provides that the radioactivity reaching the coast would have no implications for health, recognizing that radiation levels increase with the passage of time due to worsening situation in Fukushima.
Japan rose on Friday a grade 5, the severity level of the nuclear accident in Fukushima, where efforts continue to supply electricity through external cables and cool the reactors with risky operations from trucks, after being damaged by last week earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast.
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