TOKYO – The operator of Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant said yesterday that the amount of radiation being emitted from the complex had halved from a month ago, in the latest sign that efforts to bring the plant under control were progressing.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo, was damaged in March by an earthquake and tsunami in the world’s worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago. The operator hopes to bring the plant to “cold shutdown” this year. – (Reuters)