Radiation leak was “no more harmful than a routine chest X-ray”
The United States has issued its final report on the case of an American submarine leaking radiation in Japan:
The United States assured Japan on Friday that the trace levels of radioactivity which leaked from the U.S. Navy submarine Houston during its visits to three Japanese ports were, even when combined, no more harmful than a routine chest X-ray and promised to ensure “stringent performance standard” in the future.
A final report given by the U.S. Embassy in Japan to the Foreign Ministry said the incident was the first of its kind in the more than 50 years that the U.S. Navy has operated nuclear reactors and reemphasized that the leakages posed “no adverse effect on human health, marine life, or the environment.”
