No immediate radiation threat in China
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The air and seawater in China is not under immediate threat from radioactive leaks following the explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, according to latest analysis on Thursday.
![An airliner returning from Japan undergoes a radiation test at an airport in Nanjing, eastern Jiangsu Province on Thursday, March 17, 2011. [Photo: CFP]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20110318/001372a9a93f0eece8f204.jpg "An airliner returning from Japan undergoes a radiation test at an airport in Nanjing, eastern Jiangsu Province on Thursday, March 17, 2011. [Photo: CFP]") |
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An airliner returning from Japan undergoes a radiation test at an airport in Nanjing, eastern Jiangsu Province on Thursday, March 17, 2011. [Photo: CFP] |
The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center said in a statement that in the next three days, the radioactive fallout would mainly affect the waters off Fukushima.
China is located to the west of Japan. The contaminants, which previously reached the waters off the northeast coast of Tokyo, had moved east to the Pacific Ocean with the currents, according to the statement.
The forecast from an emergency response center in Beijing, which is affiliated with the World Meteorological Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency, also indicated that the air current would bring the contaminants east into the Ocean.
China would remain unaffected over the next three days, the center said.
As of 5 pm on Thursday, the air monitoring results from 41 cities across the country also remained normal, according to China's national nuclear emergency coordination committee.
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