Radiation anxiety grows in Japan

TOKYO: World has increased anxiety over radiation from the crippled nuclear Japan as well as the engineers had some success in the battle to avoid the disaster of the worst in the world since Chernobyl nuclear crisis.
The high-stakes drama in the nuclear complex Fukushima battered plays when the nation struggling with the aftermath of an earthquake on March 11 and the tsunami that killed at least 21,000 dead or missing.
Technicians who work within an evacuation zone around the stricken plant Japan coast north-east Pacific have finally managed to fix the power cables to all six reactors and started a water pump to one of them to cool the overheated nuclear fuel rods.
"We see a light out of the crisis," an official quoted Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, allowing himself a rare bit of optimism in the toughest moment of Japan since the Second World War.
Yet, far from the factory, the mounting evidence of radiation in vegetables, water and milk scare spread in Japan and abroad despite high levels of guarantees of civil servants are not dangerous.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company said radiation was found nearby in the Pacific, not surprising given the rain and hose water reactors sea
Radioactive iodine in samples of sea amounted to 126.7 times the legal limit, while cesium was 24.8 times, Kyodo news agency. It still poses no immediate danger, TEPCO said.
"It would have to drink for a whole year to earn one millisievert," a TEPCO official said, referring to the unit of radiation measurement standard. People are typically exposed to about 1 to 10 mSv per year from background radiation caused by substances in the air and soil.
Japan urged some residents near the plant to stop drinking tap water after high levels of radioactive iodine were detected. He also stopped shipments of milk, spinach and other vegetable called kakina local area.
Radiation levels exceeding the provisional standards were found (in some products), "Chief Cabinet Secretary said Yukio Edano." What I want people to understand is that their levels are not high enough to affect humans. "
Experts say that the readings are much lower than around Chernobyl after the 1986 accident in Ukraine. Some cautioned against panic.
"You do not eat or drink a lot to get any level of radiation that would be damaging," said the British nuclear expert Laurence Williams.
"We live in a world Radioactive we get the radiation of the earth, the food we eat is a sensitive issue and the nuclear industry and governments have had to do much more to educate people .."
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the effects of radiation was, however, more and more serious than first thought, when it should be limited to 20-30 km from the plant.
However, Peter Cordingley, spokesman for the WHO regional office, told Reuters there was no evidence of contaminated food to reach other countries from the complex Fukushima, located at 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.