MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Richard Shears

• Traces of radioactive iodide from Fukushima leak also found in Glasgow
• Pool of radioactive water found outside stricken power station complex
• Workers battle to remove contaminated water but source of leak is unknown
• True readings are 100,000 times above normal – but not 10m as earlier stated
• Crews find traces of plutonium in soil outside stricken complex
• Protesters warn of ‘another Fukushima’ at Hamaoka plant in quake hotspot
• Final death toll from earthquake and tsunami expected to top 18,000

Radiation from the Fukushima leak has also been detected across Britain, it was confirmed today as Japan was put on ‘maximum’ alert.

The Health Protection Agency revealed that radioactive iodine had already been discovered 5,500 miles from the stricken plant in Oxfordshire and Glasgow.

Air samples are being tested elsewhere in Britain over fears that much of the country could be hit by the radioactive plume.

Dr Michael Clark of the HPA said: ‘Very low levels of radioactivity, traceable to Fukushima, have been detected at monitoring stations in the UK including Chilton, in Oxfordshire, and Glasgow, in Scotland.”  Read more.