Japan on 'maximum' radiation alert as poison particles reach GLASGOW...UK

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Pool of radioactive water found outside Fukushima power station complex Workers battle to remove contaminated water but source of leak is unknown True readings are 100,000 times above normal - but not 10m as earlier stated Crews find traces of plutonium in soil outside stricken complex Protesters warn of 'another Fukushima' at Hamaoka plant in quake hotspot Final death toll from earthquake and tsunami expected to top 18,000 Japan was today put on maximum radiation alert as it emerged particles from the country's stricken nuclear power plant have reached as far as Glasgow. Prime Minister Naoto Kan told parliament that Japan was grappling with its worst problems since the Second World War. 'This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan' in decades, Kan said. He warned the crises remained unpredictable, but added: 'From now on, we will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.' Meanwhile, experts monitoring radiation levels more than 5,500 miles away in Glasgow said that they had detected particles of radioactive iodine, according to the Glasgow Evening Times.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370682/Japan-nuclear-crisis-Mothers-flee-Fukushima-leak-radiation-alert.html

[Shawnster]

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Trace of radiation from Japan found at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, nuclear plants

CLEVELAND - A geology professor at Case Western Reserve University said trace amounts of radiation from Japan were found in rainwater collected on a campus building.

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""In theory, the iodine-131 could have come from any radioactive waste processing facility," Matisoff said. "But, we know it's from Japan. The isotope is being seen worldwide."

Masisoff collects water to monitor the particulates being carried into rain into Lake Erie.

Also on Monday, FirstEnergy said it has detected the same radioactive material from Japan at two of its nuclear plants in Ohio -- the Perry Nuclear Power Plant and the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station. "

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