Hiroko Tabuchi Ken Belson The New York Times

• Japan releases low-level radioactive water into ocean

  Tokyo Electric Power Company began dumping more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, mostly to make room in storage containers for increasing amounts of far more contaminated runoff.The water, most of it to be released over two days, contains about 100 times the legal limit...

• Japan reactor leaking radioactive water into ocean

  Highly radioactive water is leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near a crippled reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, safety officials said Saturday, the latest setback in the increasingly messy bid to regain control of the reactors. Although higher levels of radiation have been detected in the ocean waters near the pla...