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Experts Say Country Safe From ‘Radioactive Rain’
Ismira Lutfia | March 15, 2011

A screen grab taken from news footage by Japanese public broadcaster NHK on March 14, 2011 shows the moment of a hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station number three reactor on March 14, 2011. (AFP Photo) A screen grab taken from news footage by Japanese public broadcaster NHK on March 14, 2011 shows the moment of a hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station number three reactor on March 14, 2011. (AFP Photo)
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mattjkt
8:48pm Mar 15, 2011

Fallout from Japan could easily reach Indonesia.

Sheep from farms in parts of the UK were listed as "unsuitable for consumption" for years after Chernobyl Nuclear accident....


PeterGriffin
11:36am Mar 15, 2011

Wot a load of guff

BrahmaPutra
7:48am Mar 15, 2011

when they keep lying like this all the time they kind of lose any vestige of credibility they might have had left dont they?

can you imagine indonesias "excellent" response to a similar disaster ???

notreadeeyet
4:20pm Mar 14, 2011

"Radiation will only affect areas within a 20-kilometer radius of the nuclear plant, said the agency"

Really? then why is the US fleet picking up "low level" but obviously "above average" levels of radiation 150kms offshore and moving the fleet due to this? And how is the "new technology" different to the "old" in the respect of ANY unforseen disaster? Does anyone really believe that a 20 km radius is adequate if a "total meltdown" does occur? What about prevailing WIND? hmmmm?

Lastly, I believe that any Indonesian attempt to enter the nuclear power generation industry, will be a ticking time bomb due to many factors, example: Government impotence and ineptness from a central perspective, corruption and embezzlement resulting in substandard materials and construction , not to mention poor project management and red tape..... Does it need to be spelled out anymore?

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Indonesian scientists gave assurances on Monday that there was no need for people here to worry about radiation leaking from a nuclear power plant in Japan.

Djarot Wisnubroto, deputy for nuclear technology development at the National Atomic Energy Agency (Batan), said Japan was simply too far away for possible radioactive dust to have an impact on Indonesia.

While the radiation resulting from a system failure at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 240 kilometers north of Tokyo, might adversely affect those in close proximity to the reactor, he said those in areas further away were not in any danger.

“It is too insignificant to affect Indonesia, which lies thousands of kilometers away from Japan,” he told the Jakarta Globe.

The International Atomic Energy Agency announced on Monday that Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency had informed it of a hydrogen explosion that occurred at about 1 a.m. on Monday at the Unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi.

All personnel at the site have been accounted for, although six injuries were reported.

The UN nuclear monitoring agency also said the reactor building had suffered damage in the explosion but the primary containment vessel had not been damaged. Unit 3’s control room remained operational.

The explosion was the second to occur after a blast at the plant’s Unit 1 reactor on Saturday. That reactor’s cooling system, which should have operated automatically after it was shut down following Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake, failed to function after the plant was struck by the quake-triggered tsunami.

In Indonesia, people have reported receiving a text message warning them about rain that may be carrying radioactive particles from the explosion at the Fukushima plant.

Natio Lasman, chairman of Indonesia’s Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten), said the fact that Japan had not declared areas outside Fukushima as at risk indicated that there was no danger for people not in the immediate vicinity of the plant.

“They have doubled the emergency measures by evacuating residents from a 20-kilometer radius around the plant,” he said, but have not extended the evacuation zone beyond that.

The direction of the wind is also blowing possible radioactive dust in the opposite direction of Indonesia, he added.

Kukuh Ribudiyanto, from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), however, said the wind could still change direction and blow south.