The Nepali embassy in Tokyo has been temporarily moved to Osaka from Tokyo amid fears of radiation from the nuclear power plants hit by last week's deadly earthquake.
Three embassy officials, who left Tokyo on Thursday, are working to set up the embassy office in Osaka, deputy spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Harischandra Ghimire, told Nepalnews. According to him, the embassy will start works from Osaka from coming Tuesday.
The Nepali mission will remain there until the risk of radiation from the explosions in the atomic reactors is ruled out completely.
There were reports of radiation level rising above normal in the Japanese capital following a series of explosions in the nuclear power plants located at Fukushima Daiichi, which lies 250 km northeast of Tokyo.
Meanwhile, reports quoted Yukiya Amano, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, as saying that the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was "grave and serious". "It is not the time to say things are out of control," Yukiya Amano told a news conference. "The operators are doing the maximum to restore the safety of the reactor. Yukiya Amano was responding to comments by Guenther Oettinger, the EU energy chief, suggesting that efforts to contain the crisis at the Fukushima plant had failed after efforts to cool a reactor by dumping water on it from a helicopter were abandoned.
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