VietNamNet Bridge - A radioactive cloud from Japan’s quake-damaged Fukushima I nuclear power plant is spreading to Southeast Asia with radiation levels 100 times higher than before, but it is still much lower than danger levels.

The cloud was coming near China’s Hainan Island on the night of April 7 and is forecasted to keep moving south to Mong Cai town in northern Quang Ninh province of Vietnam in the coming time, said Ministry of Science and Technology reported.

If weather conditions in the next few days remain unchanged from now, the cloud’s nuclear radiation levels will be likely to increase 10 times.

However, those levels will be tens of thousands of times lower than the allowable limit and therefore cause no harm to human health, the ministry said.

In Vietnam, the nuclear radiation levels of radioactive isotopes I-131, Cs-134 and Cs-137 have remained much lower than the permissible levels of exposure to nuclear radiation, so they will cause no effect on human health and the environment, said the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VAEI).

Also, no radiation has been detected so far in seawater in Vietnam, according to a seawater analysis report from the Institute of Nuclear Science and Technique under VAEI.

Source: Tuoi Tre/TP