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Summary Highest radiation levels were found in a reactor in Japan's stricken nuclear power plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said that radioactive steam was rising over a vent opening at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants reactor number 1.Months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a partial meltdown in the core fuel rods of the nuclear plant, Tepco is still struggling to contain highly radioactive material from leaking further in to the surrounding environment.Tepco said a US-made remote controlled robot sent in to monitor the highly-radioactive areas found steam gushing out of a vent in a room inside the reactor which registered record high levels of radiation.Engineers have begun installing equipment supplied by a French reactor maker to decontaminate the radioactive water and Tepco wants to start operating it by June 15.
