BBC News – Fukushima workers withdraw after radiation spikes
Disastrous news. The skeleton crew (one 10th the normal staff) is forced by spiking gamma radiation to walk away from two (soon-to-be burning) fuel storage ponds – one with a 10 meter hole in its containment – AND the remaining unstable reactor unit #2. Big trouble for the world.
A spike in radiation levels at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has forced workers to suspend their operation, a government spokesman says.
He was speaking after smoke was seen rising from reactor three. Earlier, a blaze struck reactor four for the second time in two days.
via bbc.co.uk
