Singapore Says No Risk From Japan Radiation
No change in assessment of risk to Singapore despite Japan’s revised rating of situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has raised its provisional rating of the situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant from 5 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) to 7 this morning.
Although the situation in Japan remains serious, Singapore is not directly impacted by the change in this emergency rating.
The Singapore Government will continue with its surveillance and measures to safeguard the public against radioactive contamination.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Japan authorities’ decision to raise the INES rating is a re-evaluation of an earlier assessment of the accident.
This re-evaluation resulted from an estimate of the total amount of radioactivity released to the environment from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.
The re-evaluation of the INES rating does not indicate that the situation has worsened.
In fact, radiation levels in various prefectures, as reported by the Japanese authorities and the IAEA, did not show any significant changes over the past few days.
Singapore is located more than 5,000 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Even in the unlikely event that any radioactive plume reaches Singapore, the impact is expected to be inconsequential as the concentration of radioactive substances would be diluted to insignificant levels over the long distance.
The Government will continue with existing measures to safeguard the public against radioactive contamination being imported into Singapore.
We will continue to monitor the situation closely and stand ready to step up measures if necessary.
For the latest updates, please visit the microsite, www.gov.sg/japanquake.
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