Fear knows no borders

Even thousands of kilometers from the scene of the Japanese nuclear catastrophe, we have still felt its impact.

Monitoring stations in coastal areas, from Shanghai in the east to the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in the south, have detected very small doses of iodine-131 in the air, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Tiny amounts of the same radioactive material were found in the air above the northeastern province of Heilongjiang over the weekend.

The radioactive material is from Japan's stricken nuclear plant.