Haneda, Narita airports create web pages with daily radiation level updates

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In the wake of escalating radiation fears brought on by the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant crisis, Haneda and Narita airports have created public web pages with twice-daily updates on radiation levels near their facilities.

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Emphasizing the continuing safety of the areas, and with the goal of curtailing misinformed rumors, the two sites update the radiation level at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. in both English and Japanese.

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Narita airport set up its detector in Hokotashi, Ibaraki Prefecture, some 50 kilometers from the airport, while Haneda’s detector transmits from nearby Kawasaki city. As of Monday at 9 p.m., the reading near Narita airport was 0.95 millisieverts per year, and 0.39 millisieverts per year near Haneda. Both are actually below the world average exposure of 2.4 millisieverts per year.

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Japan’s foreign ministry has emphasized that the level is far below anything considered harmful to human health.

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The websites are http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/index.html and http://www.haneda-airport.jp/inter/en/

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