Japan raises nuclear threat level as radiation cloud heads for Britain

JAPAN increased the nuclear threat level yesterday as experts predicted an airborne radioactive plume could reach Britain within two weeks.

Dangerous levels of radiation continued to spew into the atmosphere from the stricken Fukushima power station and the country’s nuclear safety agency raised the alert rating from four to five – on par with the 1979 Three Mile Island incident in the USA.

Only the devastating explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 has topped the scale at seven.

Particles from the Fukushima plant have already been traced on planes arriving in the US from the disaster-torn country.

And a plume of radiation reportedly hit California yesterday before being swept across America towards Europe.

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