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New setback at Japan nuclear plant

Friday, 13 May 2011


TOKYO, May 12: Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been hit by new setbacks, its operator said Thursday, including a water leak from a reactor vessel and another spill of contaminated water into the ocean. The government ordered the cull of thousands of cattle and other livestock roaming the 20-kilometre evacuation zone around the nuclear plant. -AFP