Radiation background on Sakhalin, Kurile Islands within norm

VLADIVOSTOK, April 5 (Itar-Tass) - At 09:00 local Standard Time
Tuesday /22:00 hours GMT Monday/, radiation background on Russia's Far
Eastern island of Sakhalin and on the Kurile Islands remained within norm
and varied from 5 through to 13 microroentgen per hour, emergency
situations officials said.
According to the Sakhalin region division of Russia's Ministry for
Emergency Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/, not a single case of
mounting radiation levels has been exposed across the entire region, which
includes apart from Sakhalin itself the whole Kurile range of islands
separating the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocen./
Reinforced observation includes 99 specialized posts and the data
gathered this way is sent every two hours to the Sakhalin regional center
for crisis situations management.
Experts there say there is no radiation risk for the region's
population and the issuance of radiation safety alerts is not envisioned.
Watch over radiation levels has been stepped up in the wake of the
dangerous situation at the calamity-stricken Fukushima-1 nuclear power
plant in neighboring Japan.