The state corporation governing Russia's civil nuclear industry claimed that Saturday's accident at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant caused by a powerful earthquake conceals no threats to the Russian Far East even if further developments follow the worst-case scenario.
The melting of fuel, the accident’s worst possible aftermath, would not involve any cross-border movement of gaseous products of fission that would serve to raise background radiation in the Russian Far East to a level that could affect resident’s health," the Rosatom corporation said in a statement.
In the worst possible scenario, developments at Fukushima Dai-ichi would be similar to those at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the United States in 1979, when part of the core in one of the reactors melted but stayed inside the reactor, Rosatom said.
Rosatom set up a committee to monitor developments in Japan and take urgent measures if necessary.
