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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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Volume 95 Issue 43
Aftermath of quake devastating Laura King & Mark Magnier Los Angeles Times (MCT) Japan’s nuclear crisis took a frightening turn for the worse early Tuesday as officials acknowledged that fuel rods at a quake-damaged nuclear reactor had been temporarily exposed to the air, heightening the risk of an uncontrolled release of radiation into the environment. In extraordinary televised scenes, three executives from the utility that runs the crippled complex in Fukushima prefecture, about 150 miles north of Tokyo, acknowledged that pumps funneling seawater into one of the reactors had halted temporarily, a major setback in efforts to cool the superheated core. “We are trying to reopen the valve,” said one of the officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. as they passed the micro-
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phone back and forth among themselves. “The fuel rods are exposed. We are trying to get the pressure down and pump water into the pressure vessel again.” It was the gravest development to date in the crisis brought by Friday’s devastating temblor, which triggered a tsunami that wreaked massive destruction on the nation’s northeastern coast. More than half a million people have been displaced, and the death toll is widely expected to soar into the tens of thousands. About 2,000 bodies were discovered Monday at two sites in a single prefecture, or state, one of several pummeled by the earthquake, the worst in Japan’s recorded history. Whole coastal villages were wiped from the map, and a full assessment of the extent of deaths and damage was expected to take weeks. Meanwhile, hardship and privation in the quake
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Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/MCT
The debris of the destroyed Natori neighborhood of Sendai, Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011, that was hit hard by the tsunami in the aftermath of an 8.9 earthquake. Fires continue to burn in the neighborhood as civil servants are finally able to enter the area to search for victims.
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