While the first radiation measurements taken inside two reactor buildings at Japan's crisis-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant show a harsh environment, it is not one that will be impossible for humans to work in.

AP reports nuclear safety agency official Hidehiko Nishiyama said Monday the measurements taken by two robots sent in to units 1 and 3 of the tsunami-wrecked plant mean that workers trying to restore plant systems will only be able to stay for short intervals inside the reactor buildings. He said the radiation would not delay progress toward achieving a cold shutdown of the plant within nine months.

Meanwhile, the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) remains optimistic on bringing the limped Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into a stable state in a plan which its representatives laid out on Sunday.

The plan called cold shutdown aims to reduce the levels of radioactive materials being released will operate within the next nine months.

This is part two of TEPCO’s specific timetable for the control of the reactors and improvement of safety conditions at the plant.

Foreseen to take three months, the first part of the plan includes construction of a new cooling system that would ensure there no further large-scale releases of radioactive substances.

After which, the company looks forward to installing filters to three terribly wrecked reactor buildings. This would ensure decreased level of contamination being released into the air.

With the announcement made on Sunday, TEPCO demonstrates that conditions had evidently improved in recent days. The company is now able to focus its attention to planning for the future.

Although the Japanese government did not provide specifics on how infected the land was within the perimeters of the plant, it confirmed that evacuees can return to their homes near the Daiichi plant after the land’s decontamination which may take up to nine months.

TEPCO’s chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, declared in a televised news conference, "We will do our utmost to ensure that people who have been forced to evacuate will be able to return to their homes and the Japanese people can live without worry.”