No rise in radiation levels registered in Far East - Roshydromet
MOSCOW. March 15 (Interfax) - Higher than allowed radiation levels have not been registered in Russia's Far East following a new explosion at a quake-damaged nuclear power plant in Japan, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) told Interfax on Tuesday.
"Seventy-one stations are operating in the Far East, where stepped up round-the-clock monitoring of background radiation levels is under way due to the events in Japan," he said.
Specialists from Roshydromet are working in close cooperation with teams of the Emergency Situations Ministry, as well as military units deployed in the region, he said.
"So far no increase in radiation levels has been registered in Primorye, Kamchatka and the Far East as a whole," he said.
However, specialists measured radiation levels near the quake-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant 400 times above normal, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
These levels could impact human health, the Japanese government's Secretary-General Yukio Edano said.