Sri Lanka Concerned Over Radiation From India's Nuclear Plants: Minister

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">COLOMBO <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(NNN-PTI) -- Sri Lanka Monday expressed concern over possible impact of radiation from India's nuclear power plants located in the southern region, as it prepares to raise the issue with global atomic watchdog IAEA.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The official raising of concern with the International Atomic Energy is to be made in September, the power and energy minister Champika Ranawaka said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"We respect the right of India to have nuclear power stations. But our concerns are on the possible radiation affects they could have on Sri Lanka. We have already written a letter", Ranawaka said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ranawaka said Sri Lanka's concerns stem from disasters such as Chernobyl and Fukushima. Sri Lanka would work towards achieving guarantees of safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sri Lankan energy officials say at least three nuclear plants are located on the southern coast of Tamil Nadu which is separated from the island by a narrow strip of sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Minister said the IAEA had proposed that a mutual agreement on the matter should be reached between the two countries. "We have sent a proposal to India through the<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">External Affairs Ministry and the Indians have sent back a note on the matter," he was quoted as saying by Colombo Page.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">According to Ranawaka, the Indian government has sent a proposal to commence a broad based discussion while Sri Lanka wants only to discuss and reach an agreement on a disaster mitigating programme in the event of a nuclear disaster in the South Indian plants, the paper said. Sri Lanka has no nuclear power plants but is just 20 kilometres away from Indian main land at the closest point.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Koodankulam nuclear plant in India's Southern coast is just 250 km from Sri Lanka's northwest coastal town of Mannar.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoHeader" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority does not possess adequate facilities to face a threat of nuclear accident. -- NNN-PTI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Sri Lanka Concerned Over Radiation From India's Nuclear Plants: Minister

COLOMBO   (NNN-PTI) -- Sri Lanka Monday expressed concern over possible impact of radiation from India's nuclear power plants located i...

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Indian Govt orders radiation testing of food originating from Japan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">New Delhi -- as Japan's nuclear crisis assumed dangerous dimensions, the government today ordered for food originating from the country to be tested for radiation.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuG1Jqpcir3hmAKbvMGooKCo1KF5JHRu5CjEMRpG4Yxv6xDrliQyE1uEexukQ6HgMn_yHSY4jC6VerNMeF4rRFJP3nseeeDy-ISCNonlVnllQcBGHpve4iNw5zFKlHSgGJgdel9BBmHPBB/s1600/Indian+Govt+orders+radiation+testing+of+food+originating+from+Japan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuG1Jqpcir3hmAKbvMGooKCo1KF5JHRu5CjEMRpG4Yxv6xDrliQyE1uEexukQ6HgMn_yHSY4jC6VerNMeF4rRFJP3nseeeDy-ISCNonlVnllQcBGHpve4iNw5zFKlHSgGJgdel9BBmHPBB/s320/Indian+Govt+orders+radiation+testing+of+food+originating+from+Japan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Authorised officers of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) at Indian ports, airports have been asked to get food originating from Japan after March 11, 2011 to be tested for radiation, the order said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Department of Revenue, Government of India, has also been requested to advise all the customs points in the country where imported food is cleared, to test samples on similar lines. India imports processed foods, sea food, oil seeds and seeds of vegetables such as cauliflower and cabbage come from Japan. Besides, fruits such as citrus along with diary products, confectionery items, and tobacco products also come from Japan. FSSAI in India has been set up under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, as a statutory body to establish scientific standards on food quality and safety. Meanwhile, according to media reports, two more blasts rocked the quake-crippled Fukushima plant in Japan spewing large amounts of radioactive material which may float towards Tokyo. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Japanese Premier Naoto Kan warned that there was a 'very high risk' of further leakage. The hydrogen explosions at No.2 and No.4 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant this morning prompted the government to announce that the radiation had reached harmful levels. (<b>IRNA)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 119.25pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">                                <o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Indian Govt orders radiation testing of food originating from Japan

New Delhi -- as Japan's nuclear crisis assumed dangerous dimensions, the government today ordered for food originating from the country ...

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