Engineers at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant battled to stop a pool holding spent nuclear fuel from boiling, as fears about contamination spread to the country's seafood industry.
The pool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan heated up to around boiling point, and with water bubbling away there was a risk that more radioactive steam could spew out.
Nuclear agency official Hidehiko Nishiyama said fuel rods had been partly exposed. He added: "We cannot leave this alone and we must take care of it as quickly as possible." After shipments of spinach and milk from the Fukushima area were halted because of heightened levels of radiation, new tests found elevated levels of radioactive iodine and cesium, in sea water. That prompted the Japanese government to order monitoring of seafood.
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