UN: Too early to sound all-clear in Japan

[jpak]

http://arabnews.com/world/article323043.ece

VIENNA: As emergency crews struggled to stop further radiation leaks from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, senior UN officials on Saturday said some progress was being made but warned that it was too early to pronounce that the worst was over.

High levels of radioactivity appeared to be contained to the immediate area of the stricken complex on Japan’s northeastern coast.

Reporters briefed by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency were shown charts showing readings well below health-threatening thresholds from cities a few hundred kilometers away from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

A diplomat with access to UN radiation tracking meanwhile described levels from Friday in Russia and California as minuscule.

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[madokie]

1. We can hope

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[Marblehead]

2. okay d okay