Radioactive Rain

Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operating utility said today, after it underestimated how much rain would fall at the plant and failed to pump it out quickly enough.

Dozens of South Korean schools cancelled classes on Thursday and North Koreans were urged to stay indoors over fears that rain carried radioactive material from Japan's stricken nuclear plant.More than 130 elementary schools and kindergartens in Gyeonggi province surrounding the South's capital Seoul cancelled or cut classes after rain began fallin...

Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operating utility said today, after it underestimated how much rain would fall at the plant and failed to pump it out quickly enough.

Dozens of South Korean schools cancelled classes on Thursday and North Koreans were urged to stay indoors over fears that rain carried radioactive material from Japan's stricken nuclear plant.More than 130 elementary schools and kindergartens in Gyeonggi province surrounding the South's capital Seoul cancelled or cut classes after rain began fallin...