Crippled nuclear reactors to be closed
![Plant operators have vowed to dismantle the four reactors at the centre of the nuclear crisis. [ABC]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201104/r743882_6111974.jpg "Plant operators have vowed to dismantle the four reactors at the centre of the nuclear crisis. [ABC]")
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Plant operators have vowed to dismantle the four reactors at the centre of the nuclear crisis. [ABC]
Mark Willacy, Tokyo
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Japan's Government says the crippled nuclear plant at the centre of the world's worst atomic accident in 25 years must be dismantled.
High radiation levels are still being recorded in the sea off the Fukushima facility.
Levels of radioactive iodine from the nuclear plant have been recorded in the Pacific at a new high of more than 4,000 times the legal limit.
Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, says it is clear Fukushima must be scrapped.
The plant's operators have already vowed to dismantle the four reactors at the centre of the crisis.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal has obtained the nuclear facility's disaster plans, describing them as woefully inadequate.
The documents detail how emergency equipment at Fukushima included only one satellite phone and a single stretcher.
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