Quake death toll ‘to exceed 10,000’ as Japan fights nuclear accident 03/14/2011

Quake death toll ‘to exceed 10,000’ as Japan fights nuclear accident

03/14/2011
Japan battled a feared meltdown of two reactors at a quake-hit nuclear plant yesterday, as the full horror of the disaster emerged on the ravaged northeast coast where more than 10,000 were feared dead.

An explosion at the aging Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant blew apart the building housing one of its reactors last Saturday, a day after the biggest quake ever recorded in Japan unleashed a monster 10-meter tsunami.

The atomic emergency widened yeterday as the cooling systems vital for preventing overheating failed at a second reactor, and the government warned there was a risk it too could be hit with a blast.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the situation at the stricken power plant remainedgrave, and that Japan was facing its worst crisis since the end of World War II — which left the beaten country in ruins..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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