Japanese medical personnel check a mother and son for radiation exposure in Kawamata village, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, 14 March 2011. Radiation levels at a damaged nuclear power plant at Fukushima, 240 kilometres north of Tokyo, were rising well above the legal limits, top government spokesman Yukio Edano said. Reactors at the Fukushima I and II plants lost their cooling functions after power and backup generators were cut off by the quake on 11 March 2011. EPA/ASAHI SHIMBUN
