Radiation leak at Japan lab; small impact expected |

Radiation leak at Japan lab; small impact expected

Local government officials investigate the inside of nuclear research lab J-PARC in Tokaimura, Ibaraki prefecture, Saturday, May 25, 2013. The nuclear research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

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Radiation leak a... Local government officials investigate the inside of nuclear research lab J-PARC in Tokaimura, Ibaraki prefecture, Saturday, May 25, 2013. The nuclear research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
US lauds India f... U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, center, speaks to the media after meeting Indian officials in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 24, 2013. The senior U.S. official has lauded India for reducing its oil imports from Iran and said Washington would decide soon on India's request for the renewal of a waiver from U.S. sanctions on Tehran due to expire next month. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
NKorean envoy de... In this May 23, 2013 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Liu Yunshan, right, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with North Korean envoy Choe Ryong Hae in Beijing, China. On a visit to repair ties with China and waiting to meet its leader, Choe paid deference Thursday to hopes by the North's chief ally for renewed multinational nuclear talks. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Xie Huanchi) NO SALES
Japan approves j... In this May 5, 2010 file photo, fathers that lost their children to spousal abduction to Japan hold photos of their children during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Japan’s parliament has approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse. The upper house of parliament on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, voted to join the 1980 Hague Convention on international child abduction following passage by the more powerful lower house last month.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Pakistani cricke... In this handout photo provided by the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital Pakistan's cricketer turned politician Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party leaves the hospital in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Khan left the hospital Wednesday, more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a campaign event, a spokesman said. (AP Photo/Shaukat Khanum Hospital)
Abe on 1st trip ... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie wave before boarding a plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport Friday, May 24, 2013. Abe is traveling to Myanmar for a three-day trip, the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
Afghan Taliban a... Afghan police aim their weapons after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
Myanmar Muslims ... President Barack Obama gestures toward Myanmar's President Thein Sein during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013. Thein Sein is the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
North Korea envo... A car, left, believed to be carrying North Korea's Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers’ Party official and the military’s top political officer, arrives at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Thursday, May 23, 2013. After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent the high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Japanese man, 80... A team of climbers led by 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura stand on the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Miura on Thursday became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a Nepali official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team said. The photo was taken with a telephoto lens from an altitude of 5,550 meters (18,208 feet). It is not clear which of the climbers in the photo is Miura. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT