Protesters in Tokyo have staged mass demonstrations against the use of atomic power just three months after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
Crowds of people banging drums and shouting anti-nuclear slogans poured through the streets of the capital and descended on the head offices of Tokyo Electric Power Co, which operates the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
The magnitude-9 earthquake which struck off Japan's north-east coast on March 11 caused a huge tsunami that knocked out power and cooling systems at Fukushima.
The huge wave set off explosions, fires and large radiation leaks at the facility, around 140 miles north-east of Tokyo.
Official reports released earlier this week said the damage and leakage was worse than previously thought, with nuclear fuel in three reactors likely to be melting through the main cores and containment vessels.
The reports also said radiation that leaked into the air amounted to about one sixth of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
Source and full story: Daily Mail, 11 June 2011
