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June 6, 2011

Radiation at Japanese Nuclear Plant Hits Record Level 
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A robot sent into Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility has
detected the highest levels of radiation since the devastating
earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant in March. Radiation levels near
the plant’s No. 1 reactor have reportedly reached 4,000 millisieverts
per hour, an exposure level roughly equivalent to 40,000 chest X-rays.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company says it will not send workers into the
area due to the dangerously high levels of radioactivity. An estimated
40,000 tons of "highly-contaminated" radioactive water are believed to
be resting below the reactor. Japanese officials have begun moving in
large tanks to remove the water.



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