New radiation leaks harmful to health

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks at a press conference at the prime miniser's official residence in Tokyo on March 15, 2011. Kan told people living up to 10km outside a 20km exclusion zone around a quake-hit nuclear plant to stay indoors, as a fire sent radiation to dangerous levels.

Radiation is spewing from damaged reactors at a crippled nuclear power plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan in a dramatic escalation of the 4-day-old catastrophe. The prime minister has warned residents to stay inside or risk getting radiation sickness.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said today that a fourth reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex was on fire and that more radiation was released.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned that there are dangers of more leaks and told people living within 19 miles (30 kilometers) of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex stay indoors.