The nation’s weather agency has downplayed the possibility that winds carrying radioactive substances from Japan’s Fukushima Number One nuclear power plant will enter South Korea on Wednesday or Thursday.

Korea Meteorological Administration spokesman Kim Seung-bae told reporters on Wednesday that after analyzing the air currents of Fukushima’s skies by altitude, the agency found that winds from Fukushima are expected to all blow toward the Pacific.

Kim said air currents of Fukushima’s skies were moving southward on Monday and Tuesday then changed directions to blow toward the east under an incoming high pressure front.

Kim stressed that based on such assessments, winds carrying radioactive substances are highly unlikely to enter the Korean Peninsula in contrast to projections made earlier by institutes in Norway and Germany.