Radiation anxiety grows in disaster-struck Japan

[nadinbrzezinski]

The high-stakes drama at the battered Fukushima nuclear power complex is playing out while the Asian nation grapples with the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left at least 21,000 people dead or missing.

Technicians working inside an evacuation zone round the stricken plant on Japan's northeast Pacific coast have finally managed to attach power cables to all six reactors and started a water pump at one of them to cool overheating nuclear fuel rods.

"We see a light for getting out of the crisis," an official quoted Prime Minister Naoto Kan as saying, allowing himself some rare optimism in Japan's toughest moment since World War II.

Yet away from the plant, mounting evidence of radiation in vegetables, water and milk spread jitters among Japanese and abroad despite officials' assurances levels were not dangerous.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS20110321

by the way the Reuters blog is actually better than AJE... and a good place to follow this... sticking my attention there, no longer here.

It is gotten to the point that it is truly not worth it...

Here is the blog

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. from the blog

Tests detect radiation above the national safety level in spinach and milk produced near the Fukushima plant. A sample of tap water from Tokyo shows a tiny level of radioactive.
The health ministry said that radiation levels exceeded safety standards in Fukushima and nearby Ibaraki prefecture. It said it had prohibited the sale of raw milk from Fukushima prefecture.