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Radioactive Iodine Detected in Air of China Poses no Threat

Xinhua News Agency, March 30, 2011 Adjust font size:

Citizens ride on a street on a rainy day in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, March 29, 2011.

Citizens ride on a street on a rainy day in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, March 29, 2011. "Extremely low levels" of radioactive iodine have been detected in the air above several regions of China, but the material poses no threat to public health or the environment, according to an emergency committee. Low levels of radioactive isotope iodine-131 were recently detected in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province and southeast coastal areas. [Xinhua]

 

Citizens take a ferry on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, east China, March 28, 2011.
Citizens take a ferry on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, east China, March 28, 2011. "Extremely low levels" of radioactive iodine have been detected in the air above several regions of China, but the material poses no threat to public health or the environment, according to an emergency committee. Low levels of radioactive isotope iodine-131 were recently detected in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province and southeast coastal areas. [Xinhua]


 

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