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Slight amounts of strontium found near crippled Japan nuclear plant Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:58 AM PDT Handout photo from Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows workers outside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture northeastern Japan March 23, 2011. Picture taken March 23, 2011. Mandatory credit (REUTERS/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo/Handout/Files) TOKYO (Reuters) - Slight amounts of strontium, a heavy radioactive metal that could lead to leukaemia, have been detected in soil and plants near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan's science and technology ministry said on Tuesday. Japan has already detected radioactive elements including iodine, caesium and plutonium, in areas near the plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power after reactors there were crippled due to a loss of power that disabled cooling functions. (Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Joseph Radford) Copyright © 2011 Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Japan mulls spinning off part of nuclear operator - Jiji Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:58 AM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government is considering a plan to spin off the part of Tokyo Electric Power Co The spun-off unit would become a government funded firm dealing with the nuclear accident and compensation issues, while the remaining part of TEPCO would stay publicly listed, Jiji reported without citing a source. A man is reflected in the entrance door of the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) headquarters building in Tokyo April 5, 2011. (REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/Files) (Reporting by Yoko Kubota and Kazunori Takada; Editing by Joseph Radford) Copyright © 2011 Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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