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Fri, 05/20/2011 - 09:55
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FE seas radiation monitoring expedition returns to Vladivostok
VLADIVOSTOK, May 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Geographical Society
expedition, which aboard the research vessel Pavel Gordiyenko monitored
radiation in the Far East for a month, returned to Vladivostok on Friday.
The expedition of specialists from the Russian Academy of Sciences,
research institutes, the Russian Emergencies Ministry and the
hydro-meteorological service studied the situation in the Sea of Japan,
the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea after the Fukushima-1 nuclear power
plant disaster.
"If to speak about air radiation contamination, we did not detect
radionuclides from Fukushima-1 in the Far East. We met them only near
Japan. But there as well, their content is such that nothing threatens to
the Far East. For the sea water, the situation is the same," scientific
expedition head Alexander Nikitin assured.
The expedition started out from Vladivostok on April 22 and went
across the Sea of Japan to the strait between the islands of Honshu and
Hokkaido and then along the Kuril Islands to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. On
the route, the researchers took radiation measurements and collected
meteorological information.
Scientists for two months will thoroughly analyse the gathered
information and examine the samples. Then, supposedly in August, they will
begin the second phase of the research to study the environment and Far
Eastern marine life species.
A source at the Emergencies Ministry's regional centre noted that the
radiation monitoring would continue. Currently, in the Sea of Japan it is
being conducted by the sailing vessel Nadezhda, aboard which researchers
and environmentalists are working. Their programme is coordinated with the
Russian Geographical Society. The expedition has already checked the
radiation situation in the southern part of the Sea of Japan on its
1,500-mile route along the Korean Peninsula, across the Korean Strait, off
the Tsushima Islands, along the western coast of Japan's Islands to the
Wakasa Bay. The research is underway in the northern part of the Sea of
Japan between the coasts of the Primorsky Territory and Sakhalin Island.
expedition, which aboard the research vessel Pavel Gordiyenko monitored
radiation in the Far East for a month, returned to Vladivostok on Friday.
The expedition of specialists from the Russian Academy of Sciences,
research institutes, the Russian Emergencies Ministry and the
hydro-meteorological service studied the situation in the Sea of Japan,
the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea after the Fukushima-1 nuclear power
plant disaster.
"If to speak about air radiation contamination, we did not detect
radionuclides from Fukushima-1 in the Far East. We met them only near
Japan. But there as well, their content is such that nothing threatens to
the Far East. For the sea water, the situation is the same," scientific
expedition head Alexander Nikitin assured.
The expedition started out from Vladivostok on April 22 and went
across the Sea of Japan to the strait between the islands of Honshu and
Hokkaido and then along the Kuril Islands to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. On
the route, the researchers took radiation measurements and collected
meteorological information.
Scientists for two months will thoroughly analyse the gathered
information and examine the samples. Then, supposedly in August, they will
begin the second phase of the research to study the environment and Far
Eastern marine life species.
A source at the Emergencies Ministry's regional centre noted that the
radiation monitoring would continue. Currently, in the Sea of Japan it is
being conducted by the sailing vessel Nadezhda, aboard which researchers
and environmentalists are working. Their programme is coordinated with the
Russian Geographical Society. The expedition has already checked the
radiation situation in the southern part of the Sea of Japan on its
1,500-mile route along the Korean Peninsula, across the Korean Strait, off
the Tsushima Islands, along the western coast of Japan's Islands to the
Wakasa Bay. The research is underway in the northern part of the Sea of
Japan between the coasts of the Primorsky Territory and Sakhalin Island.
