Japan Crisis

Tokyo, March 25
                 RADIATION fears escalated in Japan on Friday after workers suffered burns as they tried to cool an earthquake-crippled nuclear power station, confusion over whether it was widening an evacution zone around the plant.
                 Prime Minister Naoto Kan, making his first public statement on the crisis in a week, said the situation at the Fukushima nuclear complex north of Tokyo was "nowhere near the point" of being resolved. "We are making efforts to prevent it from getting worse, but I feel we cannot become complacement," he told reporters. "We must continue to be on our guard." The comments reflected a spike of unease in Japan after several days of slow but steady progress in containing the nuclear accident, which was triggered by a devastating earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago.
                The 9.0 magnitude quake and giant waves it triggered left more than 10,000 people dead and 17,00 missing. As shocking as that toll is' much attention sinse the March 11 disaster has been on the possibility of a catastrophic meltdown at Fukushima, 240 km. north of Tokyo.
                                                                                                                 Source: The Kathmandu Post
                                                                                                                               March 26' 2011
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