Japan's nuclear crisis has become katastrofe new life. This does not only apply to citizens of Japan, but also neighboring countries. Along with the blurring of the expatriates from the State Sakura, the Japanese citizens nearest neighbor extraordinary panic.
They fear exposure to nuclear radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi north of Tokyo. In Shanghai, China, residents stormed the shop and supermarket to buy iodized salt. Residents in Seoul, South Korea (ROK), raided a pharmacy and drug store to buy iodine pills. They fear the potential effects of radioactive nuclear reactor flying from Fukushima. Salt and iodine pills believed to ward off nuclear radiation.
"Salt has been sold out since morning," a Carrefour employee in Shanghai wholesale. He said, in just 30 minutes from the supermarket was opened on Thursday (17 / 3), salt has been hired buyer.
The price of salt in all the shops and department stores in Shanghai rose six times higher than normal price. Retailers are overwhelmed by the panic buying of salt following the issue that clouds of radioactive steam Fukushima has approached China.
Residents of Guangzhou, a city in southern China, also panicky. A supermarket staff said the demand for salt rose sharply. The seller may limit the amount of salt purchased visitors. "Too many people lining up to buy iodized salt," said a salesman.
Salt sold in the Bamboo Curtain country is generally iodine salt. This is a national policy to prevent residents of iodine deficiency. Residents rollicking buy because of certain iodine in salt can reduce the impact of radioactive contamination.
Radio Government of China, CRI, it reported iodine content in salt in all corners of the country only 20-30 micrograms per kilogram. Citing expert explanations, CRI stated, a low iodine content did not affect anything.
A number of buyers was also believed salt. However, salt imports from Japan in the future is feared contaminated with nuclear radiation. Therefore, as reported by Xinhua, consumers still buy salt.
The shops and pharmacies selling iodine pills also raided the residents. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States, said that iodine pills can prevent radioactive iodine has been dragged into the thyroid. Radioactive iodine from nuclear activities can pollute the air and the food. The thyroid gland rapidly absorb radioactive substances and cause adverse effects.
China Daily Staff on Thursday, said, tablet cydiodine been sold out at many pharmacies in cities in China, including Beijing and Shanghai. Anxiety will be adverse effects of radiation from Japan has been expanding in China despite government repeatedly announced the radiation will not reach the country.
The panic is also common in South Korea. Pharmacy officer in the country announced that there have been increasing consumer demand for iodine tablets or pills at drug stores. The expression of fear of citizens about the dangers of nuclear radiation, Japan is also widespread on the internet.
Hundreds of residents called and went to the drugstore to inquire or purchase iodine pills. Fear or panic emerged together with an explanation from officials, or from television, which states that the wind had been blowing from Fukushima radioactive particles to the west.
"Anxiety will be exposed to radiation have been widespread in this country after an explosion at a nuclear power plant in Japan," Korean Pharmaceutical Association said in a statement. "Drugstore flooded with calls from citizens who asked to buy iodine," the statement said.
Thyroid cancer
The association said that iodine tablets to reduce the risk of thyroid cancer caused by exposure to nuclear radiation, but also could pose a risk to users, namely the emergence of allergic reactions and can be problematic in the thyroid gland.
"For a small possibility of radioactive particles reach this country. The use of iodine pills to ward off excessive radiation will have a negative impact on health, "the association said in a statement.
However, widespread panic and fear in South Korea came as the government detects the possibility of radiation on the traveler and food imported from Japan, who arrived in Seoul since Wednesday. The same thing done to the South Koreans who had just fled from Japan following the explosion at a nuclear reactor in Fukushima.
At least every day there are three to five flights from Narita Airport, Tokyo, which landed at Incheon, Seoul, since the Japanese disaster. The influx is increased again since the detected radiation exposure in Fukushima and Tokyo.
However, South Korean police are also tracking the bloggers and users of social networking sites that have been disseminating information that radioactive steam from Japan has reached the Korean peninsula. In Korea, people who have been spreading misleading information will be sentenced to one year.
The expatriates increasingly left many Japanese. Many world leaders urged their citizens to go home. "If you're in Tokyo or one of the affected prefectures, we ask that you have to go home," said Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd in Canberra on Thursday.
Australia is one among 14 countries that asks its citizens to get out of Japan following the detection of nuclear radiation exposure. Panic rose after Japan using airplanes to 4 tons of water poured into the nuclear reactor complex on Thursday. (AP / AFP / REUTERS)
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