High Radiation Remains in Japan Reactor

High Radiation Remains in Japan Reactor TIME 2 reactor's containment chamber for the second time since the tsunami swept into the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant a year ago. (MORE: Nuked: A Year After Fukushima, Nuclear Power Is Down — and Carbon Is Up) The data collected Tuesday showed the damage from ...

High radiation, little water in Japan reactor (1:01) Washington Post 28, 2012 - Recent investigation found one damaged reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has extremely high levels of radiation and very little water. Authorities haven't been able to probe two others that had meltdowns. Fukushima reactor shows radiation levels much higher than thought The Guardian The 2011 earthquake and a tsunami set off the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, sending three reactor cores into meltdown and causing massive radiation leaks. The government said in December that the reactors had been safely cooled, and the plant ...