Japan Radiation Fears

• 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...

• Radioactivity 10,000 times standard at Japan plant

  Officials with the company that operates Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear plant say radioactive contamination in groundwater underneath a reactor has been measured at 10,000 times the government health standard.A spokesman for plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. says the company doesn't believe any drinking water supply is affected.Contaminated...

• High levels of radiation found in water at n-plant

  Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear plant raced to pump out contaminated water suspected of sending radioactivity levels soaring as officials warned on Monday that radiation seeping from the complex was spreading to seawater and soil.Contaminated water inside Unit 2 has tested at radiation levels some 100-thousand times normal amounts, plant operato...

• Japan tries to ease fears about safety of its tap water

  The Japanese authorities are considering a plan to import bottled water from overseas, a government official said Thursday morning, a day after spreading contamination from a crippled nuclear plant led to a panicked rush to buy water in Tokyo. Yukio Edano, the chief cabinet secretary, indicated at a news conference that importing water was among th...