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# South Korean school cancel class over radiation rain fears from Japan
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## More than 100 South Korean schools have cancelled or shortened classes over
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fears that rain falling across the country may include radiation from Japan's
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stricken nuclear plant.
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![South Korean school cancel class over radiation rain fears from Japan ][1]
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The South Korean prime minister's office says radiation levels in the rain are
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low and pose no health threat Photo: REUTERS
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1:17PM BST 07 Apr 2011
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The Education Office of Gyeonggi province says it allowed schools to decide
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whether to open on Thursday.
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The **[South Korean][2]** prime minister's office says radiation levels in the
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rain are low and pose no health threat.
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However 126 schools in Gyeonggi province shut down and 43 others shortened
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class hours as a precaution. The province is near Seoul.
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The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology says only a few schools
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outside Gyeonggi cancelled classes Thursday.
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Nuclear safety experts have said that radiation leaking into the air and water
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from **[Japan's][3]** crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex do not pose a
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health threat outside the evacuation zone around the plant, which now stands
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at 12 miles.
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Recent progress at the plant - which was damaged by a March 11 tsunami -
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appears to have slowed the release of radiation into the ocean. This week,
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technicians there plugged a crack that had been gushing contaminated water
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into the Pacific. Radiation levels in waters off the coast have fallen
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dramatically since then.
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