Pakistan stood almost no chance of receiving extremely low levels of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear power plant, that has reached neighbouring China, officials said Friday.
The environment protection ministry of neighbouring China late Wednesday said that radiation was detected across the country's heavily populated eastern, northern and southern regions.
The latest Chinese environment ministry notice repeated earlier assertions that the amount of radioactivity was only about one-thousandth of what a person would receive during a 2,000-kilometre (1,200-mile) air flight.
Pakistani authorities said there was no or very little possibility of radiation spread to the South Asian country.
"Our air monitoring system is working and being constantly observed and so far there is no increase in the normal radiation level," Zaheer Ayub Baig, spokesman of Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority said.
"There is no chance of radiation reaching here from Japan," he said and added that normally the wind direction in Japan was towards east.
"Even if it comes here it will be barely detectable and would not be harmful," Baig said and added that it would be much lesser than the normal radiation that comes from natural sources as sun.
Chief of Pakistan's Meteorological Department Arif Mahmood said that there was no possibility of acid rain in Pakistan after the nuclear disaster in Japan.
"There is no chance of acid rain in Pakistan," Mahmood said.
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11 knocked out the cooling systems of the Fukushima plant's six reactors -- triggering explosions and fires, releasing radiation and sparking global fears of a widening disaster.
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