Radiation levels in the central control room of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant stood at 1,000 times normal, the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Saturday morning.
The radiation figure came to 150 microsieverts per hour in the room, about three times the exposure in an X-ray scan of the lung, according to the agency.
Separately, the company detected radiation levels 20 times normal around the power plant's main gate, some 1.5 kilometers away from its No. 1 reactor.
The power utility has decided to release the steam in three reactors of the plant to lower their pressure, which has risen since the reactors shut down automatically after the 8.8-magnitude quake struck northeastern Japan Friday afternoon. But no such work, which may let a small amount of radioactive steam leak out into the atmosphere, had started when the radiation levels were measured. - Jiji News
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