Nissan Checks Radiation On Cars For Export

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Nissan checks radiation levels on its cars before exporting as foreign customers worry about contamination on Japanese products. Cars with radiation levels lower than 0.2 millisieverts cleared the check.

On Friday, Japanese automaker Nissan assured its foreign customers that its vehicles are not contaminated by radiation, as Japan's nuclear crisis lingers.

[Sumiyuki Shimizu, Public Relations Manager, Nissan Motor]:
"We began checking radiation level on our vehicles independently from March 18 to avoid groundless rumors about contamination. We hope we can bring peace to our customers' minds through this process."

At Nissan Motor's assembly factory in Oppama, 30 miles south of Tokyo, an engineer was implementing radiation checks at a media demonstration of the procedure.

Though the factory was located more than 180 miles away from the leaking reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, some of the parts in the vehicles were produced at facilities in quake-hit northern Japan.

The checked vehicles were loaded onto a freight vessel to be shipped to North America, as the company only picks ten samples from each shipload of vehicles at its three exporting harbors.

Vehicles pass the process if the radiation levels at both of their front wheels and steering wheel are "not significantly over" that of the surrounding air.

None of Nissan's vehicles have been contaminated so far.

Cars that have been checked and cleared with radiation levels of lower than the permitted 0.2 millisieverts will have a sticker on the lower right corner of their windshields stating "Radiation Check OK".

The 9.0-magnitude earthquake followed by the tsunami that hit northern Japan on March 11, reduced Nissan Motor's output by as much as 55,000 vehicles.