TOKYO, Mar. 12, 2011 (Xinhua News Agency) — The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Saturday that radioactive cesium has been detected at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
At a press conference, agency officials said that the detection indicates a reactor meltdown is occurring.
Workers were struggling to cool the facility and restart its quake-damaged diesel generators to avoid a total meltdown, officials said.
Friday’s massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that
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