Airline axes Fukushima flights
South Korea’s second-largest carrier Asiana Airlines is cancelling charter flights to Fukushima in Japan from October due to radiation fears from the country’s crippled nuclear plant.
“Passengers are clearly anxious and we are paying close attention to all reports on nuclear reactor pollution levels at Fukushima,” an Asiana spokeswoman told AFP.
Japan is raising the severity rating of a recent toxic water leak at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant to level 3, or “serious incident”, underlining the deepening sense of crisis at the site.
Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Fukushima, the plant’s operator said.
Ian Jarrett
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