JAPAN has unveiled new plans to contain the crisis at a crippled nuclear plant after admitting it faced greater challenges than first disclosed.

Mounting problems, including incorrect radiation figures and a shortage of storage tanks, have stymied emergency workers as they tried to nudge Japan’s stricken nuclear complex back from the edge of disaster.

Emergency workers struggling to pump contaminated water from Japan’s stricken nuclear complex fled from one of the troubled reactors today after reporting a huge increase in radioactivity – a spike that officials later said was inaccurate.

Emergency workers struggling to pump contaminated water from Japan’s stricken nuclear complex fled one of the troubled reactors today after reporting a huge spike in radioactivity, with levels 10 million times higher than normal in the reactor’s cooling system.

THERE was renewed concern at Japan’s earthquake-crippled nuclear power plant last night due to rising temperatures around the core of one of its struggling reactors.