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The two Japanese tourists, who arrived March 23 at the airport of the city of Wuxi in east China, revealed elevated levels of radiation.
Quarantine Service staff during the measurement of radiation arriving at Wuxi plane from Tokyo found that two Japanese passengers radiation levels "severely higher than normal." About this fact had been notified local health and environmental services.
The same evening, with the assistance of the Government of Wuxi City Japanese were sent to the second clinic at Suzhou Medical University, where they were treated by radiation, and their clothes and baggage were necessary treatment.
Now, according to experts, men do not pose radiation risk to others, reported on Friday, March 25, the General Directorate of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the PRC.
One victim is a resident of the Japanese prefecture of Nagano, the other - a resident of Saitama Prefecture. Both of them were in their prefectures during the recent earthquake in the east, which resulted in an accident at the NPP Fukushima-1, leading to leakage of radiation. Nagano is 350 kilometers from the Fukushima, Saitama - 200 kilometers.
Previously reported that two employees of an emergency plant Fukushima-1workers exposedfrom 170 to 180 millisieverts after them on the skin were radioactive.
Recall what happened after the March 11 earthquake in Japan due to the failure of the cooling system at the Fukushima nuclear power plant-1 there were explosions at the first, second and third power, and later observed the explosion and several fires at the fourth unit. Because of radiation leaks authorities evacuated people from the 20-kilometer zone around the plant, as well as a ban on flights over the station within a radius of 30 kilometers. March 20 The Government of JapanannouncedThat the Fukushima nuclear power plant-1 will be closed.
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The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said radiation levels that "seriously exceeded limits" were detected on the two when they arrived in the eastern city of Wuxi on Wednesday.
But China's customs body said they did not present a risk to others.
Until now, no-one in Japan except workers at the stricken plant has been found with seriously elevated radiation levels, and Japan's foreign ministry noted that as of March 18 the International Civil Aviation Association had declared that screening of airline passengers from Japan was not necessary.
The first case of contaminated Japanese travelling abroad came as injuries to workers slowed the battle to control the Fukushima complex, 240 kilometres north of Tokyo.
Some 700 engineers have been working around the clock to stabilise the six-reactor plant since the multiple disaster on March 11 which left more than 27,000 people dead or missing.
But they had to pull out of some parts of the complex when three workers replacing a cable at one reactor were exposed to high contamination by standing in radioactive water yesterday, officials said.
Two were taken to hospital with possible radiation burns after the water seeped over their boots.
"We should try to avoid delays as much as possible, but we also need to ensure that the people working there are safe," said Japanese nuclear agency official Hidehiko Nishiyama.
Safety fears at the plant and beyond - radiation particles have been found as far away as Iceland - are compounding Japan's worst crisis since World War II.
As well as causing the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986, the magnitude-9.0 quake and ensuing wall of water that tore in from the Pacific killed over 10,000 people and left 17,541 more missing, according to latest police figures.
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