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Radiation Detected 60 Miles From Fukushima

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Pentagon officials reported that helicopters flying 60 miles from the Fukushima plant picked up small amounts of radioactive particulates.Breaking News Alert

The New York Times

Sun, March 13, 2011 -- 9:36 PM ET

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Experts Say Radioactive Releases From Japanese Plants Could Last Weeks or Months

As the scale of Japan's nuclear crisis begins to come to

light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country

is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest

that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants

could go on for weeks or even months.

The emergency flooding of two stricken reactors with seawater

and the resulting steam releases are a desperate step

intended to avoid a much bigger problem: a full meltdown of

the nuclear cores in two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi

Nuclear Power Station. So far, Japanese officials have said

the melting of the nuclear cores in the two plants is assumed

to be "partial," and the amount of radioactivity measured

outside the plants, though twice the level Japan considers

safe, has been relatively modest.

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