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Radiation Levels Surge At Reactor (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)
Read more...Mar. 16, 2011 -- 7:39 p.m. JST (6:39 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power plant because of surging radiation levels and a helicopter failed to drop water on the most troubled reactor. Early in the day another fire broke out at the earthquake-crippled facility, which has sent ...
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Japan Crisis Worsens As Radiation Levels Surge (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)
Read more...Workers briefly abandon Japan nuclear plant as crisis worsens Mar. 16, 2011 -- 3:29 p.m. JST (2:29 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged, a development that suggested the crisis was spiraling out of control. Just hours earlier another fire broke out at the earthquake-crippled ...
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Japan's multiple crises deepen (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)
Read more...Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe Mar. 16, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan raced to avert a catastrophe Wednesday after an explosion at a quake-crippled nuclear power plant sent radiation wafting into Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and others to stock up on essential supplies. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said two workers at the Daiichi plant in Fukus ...
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Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)
Read more...Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) -- Millions of people in Japan's devastated northeast were spending a fourth night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggled to reac ...
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Eruption: As the Indonesian volcano explodes, scientists fear something far more catastrophic may be brewing (William Sargent)
Read more...A plume of gas and ash billows some six miles high from the Mount Merapi volcano Nov. 4. (Clara Prima/ AFP/ Getty Images) Nov. 10, 2010 (Boston Globe) -- THE MERAPI volcano, currently exploding more forcefully every day in Indonesia, is located on the Sundra Arc, one of the planet’s most complex and dangerous geological areas. This is where two large plates of the earth’s crust, the Australian an ...
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