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March 29, 2011

Japan on "High Alert" As Plutonium Found in Soil, Radiation Worse Than Three Mile Island 
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Japanese authorities have reported a number of new setbacks at the
crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. Plutonium has been
found in the soil near the plant, providing new evidence that the fuel
rods in at least one of the plant's reactors had experienced a partial
meltdown. Meanwhile, workers are scrambling to stop a new leak of highly
contaminated water from reaching the ocean near the nuclear plant.



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