Kimiko Yoshida
Fukushima Mon Amour
Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant
Nuclear Meltdown at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant
The main reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant in northern Japan, 250 kilometres north of Tokyo, exploded this afternoon leading to radiation leaks injuring four people as the authorities told 45,000 residents living within a 10-km radius of the leaking plant to evacuate their homes, Kyodo news agency reported.
“The plant is experiencing a nuclear meltdown,” Japanese nuclear scientists confirmed, after Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited the site in a helicopter early today.
