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“Radiation Inside Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Rises Sharply, Workers Evacuated”
by India Today   
June 28th, 2013
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Japanese officials reported a huge jump in radioactivity – levels 10 million times the norm – in water in one reactor unit at a tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday, forcing workers to evacuate and again delaying efforts to control the leaking complex.

Radiation in the air, meanwhile, measured 1,000 millisieverts per hour – four times the limit deemed safe by the government, Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita said.

Word of the startling jump in radioactivity in Unit 2 of the power plant came as TEPCO struggled to pump contaminated water from four troubled reactor units at the overheated Fukushima plant, 220 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. The reading was so high that the worker measuring the levels fled before taking a second reading, officials said.

Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency had warned on Saturday that radioactivity inside the units was rising quickly and that extracting the radioactive water was a priority.The discovery over the last three days of radioactive water in several units at the six-unit complex has been a major setback in the urgent mission to get the plant’s crucial cooling system back up and operating more than two weeks after a massive earthquake and tsunami.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano acknowledged emergency workers still needed to figure out the source of the radioactive water, but insisted the situation had stabilized – at least partially.

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