Highly radioactive iodine seeping from Japan’s damaged nuclear complex may be making its way into seawater further north of the plant than previously thought, officials said today, adding to radiation concerns as the crisis stretches into a third week.

TOKYO’S water supply has been contaminated by the nuclear plant disaster and is unsafe for babies.

SIRENS wailed along a devastated coastline to mark exactly one week since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear emergency, and the government acknowledged it was slow to respond to the disasters that the prime minister called a “great test for the Japanese people.”

Emergency crews are still battling to cool overheated nuclear fuel at a stricken nuclear plant a week after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.

Japanese officials are struggling with a growing nuclear crisis and the threat of multiple meltdowns, two days after the country’s north-eastern coast was savaged by a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.