Minimal impact on Macao from the leakage of the Nuclear Power Plant in Japan

Upon the series of Nuclear Power incidents occurred at Fukushima Prefecture Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 in Japan, the Macao Meteorological Bureau has been monitoring closely for any changes of the radiation level in Macao and so far no abnormalities has been recorded. At the same time, the World Meteorological Organization has already activated its Environmental Emergency Response operation and conduct forecasts upon this nuclear leakage incident. Since for the next two days, Japan will still be affected by mainly westerly winds, contamination is expected to affect only the eastern part of Japan and the Northern Pacific to the east of Japan. Macao locates more than 3000km from the site of the incident with an opposite direction to the affected areas and thus this nuclear incident is not expected to affect us directly. According to the monitoring data of Gamma Radiation located on the Taipa Grande Station of the Macao Meteorological Bureau, the Gamma-ray absorbed dose rate per minute ranges between 0.1178 and 0.1466μGy/h (micro Gray / hour) from the 11th of March till 11am today (14th) which lies within the normal level with no abnormalities found. The Macao Meteorological Bureau will continue to pay close attention to this nuclear incident and monitor for any possible impact on Macao. If any abnormalities being discovered, we will release related message to the public immediately and inform relevant government departments to adopt contingency measures.