UN probe major nuclear leaks

A MAJOR international mission to investigate Japan’s wrecked nuclear complex began yesterday as new information suggested that two more reactors suffered a meltdown in the aftermath of the tsunami.

That would mean that all three of the most troubled reactors at the plant have suffered partial meltdowns.

The team of UN nuclear experts met Japanese officials and planned to visit the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in the coming days to investigate the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 and assess efforts to stabilise the complex by Tokyo’s self-declared deadline of early next year.