Incorrect radioactivity readings given by Fukushima officials were ‘absolutely unforgivable’, says government Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant: A partial meltdown of fuel rods caused high levels of radioactivity in a water leak at the No 2 reactor. Photograph: Tepco Handout/EPA High levels of radioactivity in water leaking from a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant resulted from a partial meltdown of fuel rods, Japanese officials have said. Contamination in a pool of water in the turbine building of the No 2 reactor was found to be 100,000 times normal levels, the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power [Tepco], said….
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