Two Oxfordshire and Glasgow laboratories have confirmed that there are traces of radiated iodine 6000 miles as a result of from the recent explosions from the Nuclear power plant located in the Fukushima prefecture, after the March 11th earthquake.
Signs of problems were manifest from the outset of the natural disaster, as on March 12th, a series of fires and explosions sequentially affected four of the six boiling water reactors.
Dr Michael Clark, spokesman of the H.P.A released a statement that the radiation is at a “very low level of radioactivity”. He continued to state that the current known areas of iodine radiation are in Chilton, Oxfordshire, and Glasgow in Scotland. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency claim that the radiation deposits are very weak and are not concentrated enough to be a detriment to human health.
However recent discoveries show plutonium deposits in the soil in the vicinity of the powerplant and have been met with scrutiny. The half-life of plutonium is 24,000 years and while there is no surplus of the chemical, many worry that further complications in the plant, may result in excess deposits.
Japan’s nuclear and industrial safety agency (NISA) immediately responded to this inquiry and affirmed that such deposits are not dissimilar to radiation in the atmosphere, and therefore should be deemed harmless. With the degradation of the Power plant ongoing, there are no current reports on the likely hood of any further radioactive substances to be found on British shores in the immediate future.
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