Reactor turbine basements flooded with highly radioactive materials kept a desperate effort to stabilize the Fukushima No. 1 power plant at bay on Monday, as fresh data showed that nearby seawater was being contaminated further by leaks from the facility.
Efforts by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to restore the cooling systems for reactors No. 1 through 4, as well as their spent-fuel storage pools, continue to be halted by the highly radioactive flooding of the reactors' turbine building basements. [more...]
