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Radiation Levels Soar, Panicked Residents Start to Flee Tokyo After Latest Nuclear Plant Blast

03/15/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

  • Radiation leaking directly into the air from stricken Fukushima nuclear plant
  • Power station has now suffered three reactor explosions and one fire
  • Radiation levels up to ten times higher than normal in Tokyo
  • Experts warn of cancer risk
  • Stock markets in chaos as Nikkei plummets 10.5% in one day

Terrified residents began to flee Tokyo today as a nuclear power plant destroyed by the tsunami threatened to send a cloud of radioactive dust across Japan.

The Fukushima Dai-ichi plant suffered a third reactor explosion overnight and another reactor on the site caught fire.

Radiation levels are soaring across the country this afternoon as radioactive material is spewed directly into the atmosphere – while emergency crews fight to avoid a catastrophic meltdown.

Levels of radiation were 10 times normal in the capital today and continue to climb, as experts warned that Japanese could face an increased cancer risk even if the situation does not deteriorate.

The situation is worse for 140,000 people who live within an 18-mile exclusion zone around the plant. They were today ordered to stay indoors or be exposed to a dangerous level of radiation.  Read more.

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