Tokyo: Japan has been advised to consider expanding the evacuation zone around the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
An exclusion zone with a radius of 20km is currently in place but the UN nuclear monitors say safe radiation limits have been exceeded 40km away.
Meanwhile, radioactive iodine levels in seawater near the plant reached a new record – 4,385 times the legal limit.
It was the highest reading since the quake which hit the plant on March 11.
Radiation may be leaking from the damaged plant continuously, the country’s nuclear and industrial safety agency (Nisa) said.
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), announced on Wednesday that the four stricken reactors would be decommissioned.
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