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Anchorage - Fish in the North Pacific most likely will not be contaminated with radioactive material from nuclear power plants in Japan. Federal health officials and the state of Alaska say there is no reason to do testing on the fish there.
The level of radiation hazard was found on the coast near Fukushima reactor complex. However, a spokesman for The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says the federal, the ocean is vast, and Alaska fisheries are very far away, so there's no real threat of radiation.
Alaska's food security program manager, Ron Klein of the Department of Environmental Conservation, said the FDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric National has proven there is no reason to worry about radiation.
"Based on the work they do, there is no testing or monitoring of fish that needs to be done," Klein said as quoted by the Associated Press on Monday (4/18/2011).
Less than one month since the nuclear crisis, the Government of Japan believes it has closed the leak that allows the tons of water containing iodine and cesium isotopes flowing into the sea.
Based on congressional testimony by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.), reactor and fuel rod storage pool is still not stable. Meanwhile, Japanese government said the crisis will last for a long time. Alaska is a U.S. state closest to the Japanese.
The level of radiation hazard was found on the coast near Fukushima reactor complex. However, a spokesman for The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says the federal, the ocean is vast, and Alaska fisheries are very far away, so there's no real threat of radiation.
Alaska's food security program manager, Ron Klein of the Department of Environmental Conservation, said the FDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric National has proven there is no reason to worry about radiation.
"Based on the work they do, there is no testing or monitoring of fish that needs to be done," Klein said as quoted by the Associated Press on Monday (4/18/2011).
Less than one month since the nuclear crisis, the Government of Japan believes it has closed the leak that allows the tons of water containing iodine and cesium isotopes flowing into the sea.
Based on congressional testimony by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.), reactor and fuel rod storage pool is still not stable. Meanwhile, Japanese government said the crisis will last for a long time. Alaska is a U.S. state closest to the Japanese.
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