Japan’s Stricken Atomic Plant Gets Power Cable Reconnected

Workers reconnected the power cable to one reactor at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic plant, signaling progress in efforts to prevent Japan’s nuclear crisis from escalating.

Radiation levels at the plant went close to zero after a water-spraying operation by troops and fire-fighters, suggesting the water was striking its target, Kyodo News reported yesterday, citing a Tokyo fire department official. The facility, damaged following a March 11 earthquake and tsunami, hasn’t had a “massive radiation release,” said the International Atomic Energy Agency.