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Japanese Measure Radiation At Schools, While Radioactive Water Continues To Leak Into Ocean
ResumeThe BBC's Roland Buerk joins us from Tokyo, with an update on the effort to repair the Fukushima power plant. Workers at the Fukushima plant continue to discharge water with low levels of radiation into the ocean to free up space to store more highly radioactive water that's now leaking out of the site.
Radiation in seawater near the plant is reportedly several million times the acceptable levels. The nuclear crisis also has officials in northeast Japan starting an emergency program to measure radiation levels in school playgrounds.
This segment aired on April 5, 2011.