Tokyo's tap water is unfit for babies to drink after radiation from Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant affected the capital's water supply, officials said.
Radioactive iodine levels in some areas were twice the recommended safe level.People in Fukushima prefecture, where the nuclear plant is located, have been told not to eat certain vegetables because of contamination worries.
Workers have been temporarily evacuated from the plant after black smoke was seen rising from reactor No 3.
Engineers have been trying to cool the reactors and spent fuel ponds to avoid a major release of radiation, after power to the cooling systems was knocked out by the earthquake and tsunami.
The authorities are warning people living in Tokyo not to allow babies less than a year old to drink water from the tap.
The level of radiation picked up in tests carried out on Tuesday was more than twice the level that is safe for infants to drink.
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