WHO: No Radiation Risk Outside Evacuation Zone / Safe to Visit Japan
N-H-K reports on how the World Health Organization has concluded there is no radiation danger outside of the Fukushima nuclear plant’s 30-kilometer safety zone. It is also confident enough about the future state of the nuclear plant to state that there is no public health reason to avoid travel to Japan and no reason for people to evacuate from the country:
WHO: No radiation risk outside evacuation zone
The World Health Organization has said radiation levels outside the evacuation zone in Japan are not harmful for human health.
WHO spokesperson Gregory Hartl made the remarks at a regular news conference in Geneva on Friday.
The Japanese government issued an advisory on Tuesday to evacuate from a 20-kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It also told people living within a 30-kilometer radius to stay indoors.
He said the amount of radiation being reported outside of the evacuation zone continued to be below the levels considered a public health risk.
He said the WHO finds no public health reason to avoid travel to Japan, except to the affected areas, or to recommend that foreign nationals leave the country.
Some countries are encouraging their citizens to leave Japan or are moving their embassies from Tokyo to Osaka.
Referring to an examination of Japanese food imports by some countries, he said he cannot imagine that any food from the quake-damaged areas was able to have been delivered. He said he concludes there is no risk that exported .
[hat tip to Steve Nagata]
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