Russia checks ship after radiation found

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/24/3173144.htm?section=justin

Russia is checking a cargo ship that arrived in its Far East with radiation levels three times the norm after passing close to Japan's quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.

The quarantining of the Panama-flagged vessel on the Pacific coast of the Khabarovsk region came as Russia banned the import of food from four Japanese regions amid continued concern about the situation in its neighbour.

The ship had delivered a cargo of plywood to Japan and had then passed close to the quake-damaged nuclear power plant at Fukushima on its return voyage, the head of Russia's consumer protection agency, Gennady Onishchenko said.

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"In the cabins of the ship the level of gamma-radiation was within the norm but in the engine rooms it was three times higher," the Interfax news agency reported Mr Onishchenko as saying.

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