Explosive event: The upper side of the unit 3 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi was damaged by a hydrogen explosion. This area housed the spent fuel pool and the fuel handling machines. (Courtesy: TEPCO)
Tiny fragments of plutonium may have been carried more than 200 km by caesium particles released fo
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Edwin Cartlidge is a science writer based in Rome.