Post by asian malaysian on Mar 23, 2011 22:47:05 GMT -5
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Australia and Singapore joined the U.S. and Hong Kong in restricting food imports from Japan as elevated radiation levels were found outside an evacuation radius around the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
Singapore suspended imports of milk and products, fruit and vegetables, seafood and meat from areas in Japan affected by the nuclear power accident, the nation’s Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority said on its website. Australia said it would place a “holding order” on some products from four prefectures.
Stores and restaurants across Asia have dropped Japanese food from shelves and menus as the nation’s government halted spinach shipments and told residents around the stricken nuclear plant not to drink tap water. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said yesterday that higher radiation levels had been detected outside a 30-kilometer radius of the plant damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-23/restrictions-on-foods-from-japan-widen-amid-radiation-concerns.html
New Problems at Japanese Plant Subdue Optimism
By KEITH BRADSHER
The Japanese electricians who bravely strung wires this week to all six reactor buildings at a stricken nuclear power plant succeeded despite waves of heat and blasts of radioactive steam.
The restoration of electricity at the plant, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, stirred hopes that the crisis was ebbing. But nuclear engineers say some of the most difficult and dangerous tasks are still ahead — and time is not necessarily on the side of the repair teams.
The tasks include manually draining hundreds of gallons of radioactive water and venting radioactive gas from the pumps and piping of the emergency cooling systems, which are located diagonally underneath the overheated reactor vessels. The urgency of halting the spread of radioactive contamination from the site was underlined on Wednesday by the health warning that infants should not drink tap water — even in Tokyo, 140 miles southwest of the stricken plant — which raised alarms about extensive contamination.
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/world/asia/24nuclear.html?partner=rss&emc=rssrms
Singapore suspended imports of milk and products, fruit and vegetables, seafood and meat from areas in Japan affected by the nuclear power accident, the nation’s Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority said on its website. Australia said it would place a “holding order” on some products from four prefectures.
Stores and restaurants across Asia have dropped Japanese food from shelves and menus as the nation’s government halted spinach shipments and told residents around the stricken nuclear plant not to drink tap water. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said yesterday that higher radiation levels had been detected outside a 30-kilometer radius of the plant damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-23/restrictions-on-foods-from-japan-widen-amid-radiation-concerns.html
New Problems at Japanese Plant Subdue Optimism
By KEITH BRADSHER
The Japanese electricians who bravely strung wires this week to all six reactor buildings at a stricken nuclear power plant succeeded despite waves of heat and blasts of radioactive steam.
The restoration of electricity at the plant, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, stirred hopes that the crisis was ebbing. But nuclear engineers say some of the most difficult and dangerous tasks are still ahead — and time is not necessarily on the side of the repair teams.
The tasks include manually draining hundreds of gallons of radioactive water and venting radioactive gas from the pumps and piping of the emergency cooling systems, which are located diagonally underneath the overheated reactor vessels. The urgency of halting the spread of radioactive contamination from the site was underlined on Wednesday by the health warning that infants should not drink tap water — even in Tokyo, 140 miles southwest of the stricken plant — which raised alarms about extensive contamination.
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/world/asia/24nuclear.html?partner=rss&emc=rssrms