Radiation Exposure
Radiation Exposure . Thousands people were evacuated from nuclear power plant areas being were scanned for radiation exposure. Nine people’s results have shown some degree of contamination, as of late Sunday. Japan's nuclear safety agency said the accident at the 40-year-old Daiichi 1 reactor plant in Fukushima prefecture, which was triggered by Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake, was less serious than both the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The Japan government insisted radiation levels were low following an explosion in the main building of the plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, officials ordered an evacuation zone doubled to a radius of 20 km (12 miles) around the site. But 90,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the plant while authorities prepared to distribute iodine to people in the vicinity who may have been exposed. Iodine can help protect against thyroid cancer following exposure to radiation. What is the Radiation e...