Lead: Spread of radiation from Japanese quake-damaged nuclear plant remains localized. China radiation level stays normal and no immediate risk to human health is posed to people in China.

The devastating Japan March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami wreaked havoc on the country and caused serious casualty. A nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture (southern part of Tohoku region, about 200km from Tokyo) was battered by the massive quake and tsunami, resulting in the leakage of nuclear radiation.

The catastrophe draws global attention and ignited concerns about whether a leak of radioactive substances from the plant could pose a serious health risk to other cities of Japan and other parts of the world. China as a nearby country of Japan is in the spotlight of such concerns.

Here is a compile of news released by worldwide authoritative news agents.

March 18, from China Daily, Xinhua News, Reuters:
China representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) Michael O’Leary dismissed public overconcern of radioactive fallout, noting that the spread of radiation from the Japanese quake-damaged nuclear plant remained localized and would not pose an immediate risk to human health in China. “At this point, there is still no evidence that there’s been significant radiation spread beyond the immediate zone of the reactors themselves.”

March 19, from People’s Daily:
Regarding radiation monitoring (in Japan), senior IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) official Graham Andrew said radiation information is being received from 14 Japanese cities, and dose rate in Tokyo and other cities remain far below from the level of requiring an action, which means there is no danger to human health.

March 19, from Bloomberg:
Shifting winds and rain will carry radiation released from the Fukushima complex inland and deposit radionuclides on the ground, Austria’s Meteorological and Geophysics Center reported on March 18, citing United Nations data.

“From the point of view of the worst-case scenario, the largest emissions are behind us and they went out to the Pacific Ocean,” Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia’s state nuclear power company, Rosatom Corp., said on Russian state TV Vesti.

March 21, from People’s Daily
Japan reported some progress yesterday in the battle to gain control over a leaking nuclear complex, although the evolving crisis was far from over.

In all cases, the government said the radiation levels were too small to pose an immediate health risk.

March 21, from People’s Daily
According to the China State Oceanic Administration, no abnormal signs have been detected in the seawater off the Chinese coast and the waters will not be affected by radioactive fallout in the next three days since the current off the coast of Fukushima flows southeastward.

Real-time Report by China Ministry of Environmental Protection (National Nuclear Safety Administration)
China has stepped up monitoring of radiation levels. The MEP (NNSA) keeps releasing real-time and constant values of the absorbed dose rate in air as monitored by automatic radiation monitoring stations in provincial capital cities and some of the prefectural-level cities. By 9:00am, March 21, data shows that the radiation level in China has not yet been affected by the Japanese nuclear accident.