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MANILA - Small amounts of radiation from Japan's leaking nuclear
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power plant have spread across Asia, authorities said Tuesday,
deepening concerns for millions of people already wary of eating AirAsia eyed
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"I can firmly assure you that this amount will not have an iota of impact on the lives of ordinary Koreans," Korea president to address nation
Institute of Nuclear Safety chief Yun Choul-Ho told reporters in Seoul.
Calm urged as radiation spreads
Nevertheless the development was another reminder for people across the Asia Pacific about the rippling impacts across Asia
of the damaged Fukushima power plant more than two weeks after a huge earthquake and tsunami crippled the
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People and governments living in countries neighbouring Japan had already taken a range of precautionary Fed comments push dollar
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Authorities across the region began testing Japanese food imports for radiation, while some vegetables grown Our RM407bil debt no cause for
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Travellers returning from Japan also started to be screened at some airports for radiation.

In China, two Japanese travellers were hospitalised last week after airport officials detected elevated radiation
levels on them, although they were later discharged.

Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council reported Tuesday that small amounts of radioactive particles had been detected
on 43 passengers from Japan since the crisis began.

The shipping industry has also grown increasingly nervous about vessels potentially sailing into contaminated
waters off the coast of Japan.

Chinese authorities said last week that radiation had been detected on a Japanese merchant vessel that berthed
in the southeastern port city of Xiamen.

In another development on Tuesday underlining rising fears about potentially dangerous radiation spreading
across the region, South Korean officials said they had begun screening fish caught in their own waters.

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Fish including mackerel and hair tail were being tested for caesium, iodine and other radioactive materials,
although none had been detected, a South Korean agricultural ministry told AFP.

Some European buyers of South Korean farm produce had also started demanding that shipments undergo
radiation tests, sending farmers rushing to nuclear safety agencies for screening, Yonhap news agency reported.

In China, the health ministry ordered authorities in Beijing, Shanghai and other highly populated areas to test
drinking water and food for radiation, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.

Greenpeace International nuclear expert Rianne Teule said people outside of Japan should not be panicked by
the spreading plume of radiation across Asia and further afield.

"The levels (of radiation) that are reaching countries far away are so low that they will not be a significant health
risk," Teule told AFP by phone from Amsterdam.

However she said there was no completely safe level of radiation and that, as more radiation spread, the risks VIDEO Najib-Rosmah dare not face us
would grow.

"If a very large population is exposed to a very low level of radiation, it will overall increase the cancer risk for that
population," she said.

- AFP

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