The situation at Fukushima remains worrisome with new developments on the radiation leak coming in daily.
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Attempts to shift the stuck pebble damaged the reactor and caused a radiation leak.
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They kept asking what to do to stop the radiation leak, but company officials had no answers.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the possibility of a significant radiation leak after the second blast is small.
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The latest concern in the region is a radiation leak from the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.
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The China Meteorological Administration confirmed on Tuesday that the radiation leak in Japan is unlikely to reach China, at least for now.
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The future of the heavily damaged Unit 3 reactor, where the radiation leak occurred after a tube break last year, is not clear.
Besides, there are fears that a radiation leak from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will reach Tokyo, and warnings of another massive earthquake.
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Japanese government officials stress that the radiation leak at its current level will not cause harm to humans at least 30 kilometers away.
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Modelling based on experience with previous plants suggests that the risk of a significant radiation leak from generation I reactors was between one in 1, 000 and one in 10, 000 per reactor year.
The twin-domed plant between San Diego and Los Angeles has not produced electricity since January 2012, when a tiny radiation leak led to the discovery of unusual damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
The seaside plant between Los Angeles and San Diego has been shut down since January 2012, after a small radiation leak led to the discovery of unusual damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
Shut-down reactors include two at the beleaguered San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California, which hasn't produced electricity since January 2012, when a tiny radiation leak led to the discovery of damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
The government announced that the explosion at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant is not causing radiation to leak, as had been widely feared and suspected.
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Executives from Tepco, which operates the complex, looked visibly shaken as they acknowledged in a press conference that they still weren't sure how severe the damage was, or how much radiation could leak out.
The leak is thought to have been the source of high levels of radiation found in seawater nearby.
That said the story of the men who volunteered to put their fingers in the leak - some of whom died soon after due to lethal doses of radiation - is compelling.
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