sábado, 16 de abril de 2011

Radioactivity rises in sea off Japan nuclear plant - Newsday (subscription)

Photo credit: AP | In this image released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., damaged housing of Unit 3 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant is observed with a T-Hawk drone in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (April 15, 2011)

TOKYO (AP) — Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government said Saturday.

The announcement came after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted Japan on Saturday morning, hours after the country's nuclear safety agency ordered plant operators to beef up their quake...

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