Mothers-to-be flee from quake radiation as Japanese nuclear engineers discover contaminated water OUTSIDE stricken power plant - 29th Mar 2011

Hundreds of pregnant women are fleeing Japan’s east coast and capital Tokyo over fears that radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant will harm their unborn babies.

Workers are battling to avert a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant have discovered a pool of radioactive water outside the crippled facility.

Hospitals in the Osaka region, 450 miles from the crippled power station which is spewing radiation into the air, have been inundated with requests from mothers-to-be seeking a safe place to give birth Read More