High radiation levels at Japanese plant raise new worry

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By Yoko Kubota
Posted 2011/03/25 at 5:14 pm EDT

TOKYO, Mar. 25, 2011 (Reuters) — Highly radioactive water has been found at a second reactor at a crippled nuclear power station in Japan, the plant's operator said, as fears of contamination escalated two weeks after a huge earthquake and tsunami battered the complex.

Underscoring growing international concern about nuclear power raised by the accident in northeast Japan, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement it was time to reassess the international nuclear safety regime.

Earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, making his first public statement on the crisis in a week, said the situation at the Fukushima nuclear complex, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, was "nowhere near" being resolved.

"We are making efforts to prevent it from getting worse, but I feel we cannot become complacent," Kan told reporters. "We must continue to be on our guard."

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1. There basically needs to be an international treaty to ban nuclear power.

With sticks and carrots strong enough that everyone abandons it.

Nuclear power is Unsafe At Any Speed.