FIM Radiation Report In: Motegi MotoGP Round To Go Ahead As Planned

The long-awaited report from the FIM is in, containing a preliminary version of the report commissioned to investigate radiation levels at Motegi. As expected, the report finds no danger to health from radiation in and around Motegi, in line with all the other data coming in from Japan on radiation levels around the area, both official and unofficial. And as a consequence, the FIM and Dorna stated that there will be an announcement later this week that the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi will go ahead as scheduled, barring any further serious incidents.

The report from ARPA, an independent Italian agency with expertise on environmental radiation, tested air samples, background radiation, and several food samples from around the Motegi circuit, and found both the air samples and background radiation to be consistent with normal levels, and comparable (actually slightly lower) than in the region around ARPA's offices in Vicenza, Italy. Food and drink samples were also found not to have measurable levels of Cesium contamination (the radioactive particle released by the Fukushima reactor), with the exception being one beef sample from cows in the Miyagi region. But even for that sample, the level found was very low, and well within the permitted level of contamination established by the EU for food coming from Japan.

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