Calm urged as radiation spreads to Europe, US

Traces of radioactive iodine from Fukushima has been discovered in Scotland and England. (AAP)

 

Radiation from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached parts of Britain and the United States.

The UK's Health Protection Agency said traces of radioactive iodine had been discovered in Oxfordshire in England and Scotland, the Daily Mail reports.

"Very low levels of radioactivity, traceable to Fukushima, have been detected at monitoring stations in the UK including Chilton, in Oxfordshire, and Glasgow, in Scotland," the HPA's Dr Michael Clark was quoted as saying.

"These traces have been found in Europe — Switzerland, Germany and Iceland — and in the USA. They're trace levels but of course with radioactivity we can measure very low amounts." 

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