Monday, March 14, 2011

Japan’s nuclear threat

Japanese officials are fighting a desperate multifront battle to avert a nuclear disaster in an area of the country already ravaged by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunami.

Nuclear plant operators were flooding shut-down reactors with cold water – including sea water in some cases – in a bid to keep temperatures down and prevent explosions that could spread radioactive contamination across the country and into East Asia.

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