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Second Japanese Nuclear Reactor At Risk of Exploding

   Steve Herman | Fukushima, Japan  March 12, 2011

Photo: AFP / Yomiuri Shimbun

   Policemen  wear  gas  masks and patrol near the nuclear power plant in
   Fukushima  prefecture  on  March  12,  2011  a day after a massive 8.9
   magnitude quake and tsunami hit the region.

   Government  officials  say as many as 160 people may have been exposed
   to radiation in Fukushima Prefecture
   Japan is struggling to keep nuclear power reactors under control. This
   comes  as  massive  search  and  rescue  efforts  are  underway in the
   northeastern  part of the country following Japan's worst ever natural
   disaster.

   Watch video of the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant

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   The  official  death toll is now over 1,000 with thousands more people
   unaccounted  for  and 300,000 Japanese evacuated from severely damaged
   communities following Friday earthquake and large tsunami.
   Government  officials early Sunday said as many as 160 people may have
   been  exposed to radiation here in Fukushima Prefecture. That occurred
   following  an  explosion  at  the  crippled  number  one  plant of the
   Fukusihma nuclear power complex.