"According to data, the wind around Fukushima will likely blow to the north and west of the area not to the south where Indonesia is located," Lasman said.
As to the fear that the acid used in the nuclear plant will flow to the clouds and turn into acid rain, he said the power of the acid was weak, even weaker than nitrate or sulfate.
Lasman also said that for prevention, he would send his staff to conduct an observation in the areas predicted to experience the impact of acid rain first namely like Manado (North Sulawesi).
Earlier International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano said Japan had officially asked the UN atomic watchdog to send a team of experts to help deal the current nuclear crisis.
"Today, the government of Japan asked the agency to provide expert missions. We are in discussions with Japan on the details," Amano told IAEA member states in a closed-door technical briefing at the watchdog`s Vienna headquarters.
As soon as the devastating earthquake hit Japan on Friday, damaging the Fukushima nuclear plant located 250 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Tokyo, the IAEA made a formal offer of assistance to the government.
The giant nuclear plant of Fukushima was damaged by the quake, with two explosions hitting separate reactor units there.
But "the reactor vessels have held and radioactive release is limited," Amano insisted.
The IAEA had issued a statement saying the Japanese authorities had reported that Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 had "experienced decreasing coolant levels in the reactor core."
Officials had begun to inject sea water into the reactor to maintain a cooling effect pm the reactor core, it said.
And sea water injections into Units 1 and 3 had been interrupted on Sunday "due to a low level in sea water supply, but sea water injections have now been restored at both units."
Meanwhile, Japan`s nuclear safety agency said there is "absolutely no possibility of a Chernobyl" style accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, the national strategy minister said Monday, as quoted by Jiji Press.
The minister, Koichiro Genba, made the comment citing the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency at a meeting of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.
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