Nuclear Radiation leaked: Video Screen Shot

It is now confirmed that nuclear radiation has started to leak from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off aftermath a massive earthquake, though the government of Japan insisted that radiation levels are low.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said there had been no major change in the level of radiation after the explosion because it did not occur inside the reactor container as quoted by Reuters

He initially said that an evacuation radius of 10 km (6 miles) from the stricken 40-year-old Daiichi 1 reactor plant in Fukushima prefecture was enough, but then an hour later the boundary was extended to 20 km (13 miles). TV footage showed vapor rising from the plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo. People are being prevented to come inside the boundary

As the officials suggest that this incidence can not be compared with Chernobyl but there is still a risk of possible damage to ecosystem. The explosion at Chernobyl's nuclear plant's fourth reactor in 1986 sent thousands of tonnes of toxic nuclear dust billowing across the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. It was the worst civil nuclear disaster.

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