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May 16, 2011

Japan Expands Exclusion Zone around Damaged Nuclear Plant, Greenpeace Calls for Radiation Investigation 
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Japanese authorities are widening the exclusion zone around the crippled
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility as radiation levels remain high
more than two months after the nuclear disaster. Meanwhile, the Tokyo
Electric Power Company has revealed substantial damage occurred to the
reactor cores at reactors 2 and 3 of the nuclear complex. Last week
TEPCO acknowledged the fuel inside reactor 1 had apparently melted down,
creating a hole in the chamber causing a leak of more than 3,000 tons of
highly contaminated water. Greenpeace is urging Japan to start an
investigation after high levels of radiation were found in seaweed off
the coast of Fukushima. Ike Teuling is a radiation expert at Greenpeace.

Ike Teuling, Greenpeace radiation expert: "Although the Japanese
government gave us only very limited permission to do our marine
research, we did find radioactive seaweed with alarming high levels of
contamination."



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