Radiation injuries slow work at Japan’s nuclear plant

A baby undergoes a check for radiation in Fukushima City, northeastern Japan, March 24, 2011. (Reuters/Kyodo)

TOKYO (Reuters) – Radiation injuries to three workers complicated the battle to control Japan’s crippled nuclear plant today and heightened global anxiety over the worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

Hailed by Japanese as anonymous heroes braving unknown dangers, about 300 engineers have been working around the clock to stabilise the six-reactor Fukushima complex since an earthquake and tsunami struck two weeks ago.

But they had to pull out of some parts of the complex, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, when three workers replacing a cable near