A meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant would pose no radiation threat to Russia, the state-controlled nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Friday.
Fukushima was hit by a number of explosions following a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands on March 11. Workers at the plant are still desperately trying to cool the overheating nuclear cores in the reactors in an effort to prevent nuclear fallout.
"The worst case scenario in the meltdown of fuel at all the six Japanese reactors," Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko told a National Security Council meeting attended by President Dmitry Medvedev. "The only possible health threat is that people, out of fright, may give iodine preparations to their children or drink them themselves."
Earlier on Friday, Japan raised the alert level at the plant to five from four on a seven point scale.
Russia and the United States agreed earlier on Friday to share information on the developments at Fukushima.
MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti)
