Radioactivity soars in Japan reactor, workers evacuated

By REUTERS 
03/27/2011 10:21

Radiation level of water in Fukushima plant's No. 2 reactor 10 million times normal amount; IAEA chief warns nuclear emergency not over.

  TOKYO - Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after radiation in water at the crippled nuclear power plant reached potentially lethal levels, the plant's operator said.


Tokyo Electric Power Co said radiation in the water of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant was measured at more than 1,000 millisieverts an hour. That compares with a national safety standard of 250 millisieverts over a year. The US Environmental Protection Agency says a dose of 1,000 millisieverts is enough to cause hemorrhaging.

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