The Sri Lankan Atomic Energy Authority today urged the Sri Lankan public not to panic over the unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan, the Authority Chairman Prof. Wimaladarma Abeywickrema told Ada Derana a short while ago.We are in touch with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria and we will keep the public informed, he added.
Meanwhile Japan said that the risk of a nuclear leakage was rising at its quake-stricken power plant on the northeast coast and warned any people within a 30 km radius from the Nuclear plant to stay indoors.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan told a news conference that radioactive levels around the Fukushima Daiiichi complex were now high and said authorities were doing their utmost to prevent leaks from the reactor from spreading. Source by: ada derana
This is a satellite image of the Daiichi Power Plant in Japan taken at 11:04 a.m. local time, just minutes after a reported fire there.
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