The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. April 2, 2012 Experts: Fukushima Radiation Hits Record Levels ------------------------------------------------ The vote by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve new reactors in South Carolina comes as experts have warned radiation levels at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have reached fatally high levels. The radiation is so high that even specially designed robots used in the clean-up effort are not equipped to enter the plant. .