According to professor of nuclear physics at the University of Cyprus Charalambos Tsertos there is no risk to the area of ​​Cyprus and the Mediterranean in general. Mr. Tsertos explained that there is no nuclear explosion, but an explosion in the reactor shell which resulted into a small leak of radioactivity. The phenomenon, he said, is local, depending on the direction of the air cloud of radioactivity can travel to some of Japan’s neighbouring countries.