Radiation 1,000 times normal at Japan nuke plant

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TOKYO — Radiation reached around 1,000 times the normal level Saturday in the control room of the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant after the cooling system failed, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

The agency said early Saturday that some radiation — it was not clear how much — has also seeped outside the plant, prompting widening of an evacuation area to a six-mile radius from a two-mile radius around the plant. Earlier, some 3,000 people had been urged to leave their homes.