Japan Nuclear-Site Damage Worse Than Reported
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Water leaking from a damaged nuclear power plant was 50 percent more radioactive than initially announced.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake killed at least four people in Japan on Monday, injured more than 400, flattened houses and started a small fire at the world's largest nuclear power plant, Japanese media and officials said.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Feb. 28--OAK RIDGE -- The K-25 plant is badly deteriorated and thoroughly  contaminated with uranium and a host of other hazardous materials.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - Officials at the world's biggest nuclear power plant admitted on Tuesday there had been more radiation leaks after an earthquake in Japan that killed nine people and forced thousands from their homes.
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Officials said a series of stacked drums containing low-level nuclear waste fell over during Mondayâs earthquake and some of the lids were found open, Kyodo News agency reported.
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A Japanese nuclear power plant -- the world's biggest -- may be shut down for more than a year while a safety study is made after an earthquake caused radiation leaks and showed that the plant was built above an active fault.
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A series of severe earthquakes in northern Japan left 21 people dead, more than 1,500 injured and at least 7 missing, the Kyodo news reported Sunday.
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OJIYA, Japan -- A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks struck northern Japan yesterday, killing at least 16 people and reportedly injuring more than 900 as buildings crumbled, a bullet train derailed, and roadways were torn apart.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake flattened houses in northwestern Japan on Monday, killing at least seven people, and sparking a small radiation leak and fire at the world's biggest nuclear power plant.
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Reports from Japan&#39;s major electronics and semiconductor makers suggest their manufacturing facilities suffered no damage and no production stops after two earthquakes shook the country&#39;s western region on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi surveyed the earthquake damage in northern Japan on Tuesday, meeting people camped out in a high-school gymnasium after the nation&#39;s
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A huge explosion rocked an area in North Korea near the border with China three days ago and the accident appears to be much worse than a train blast that killed at least 170 people in April, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
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TOKYO Braving near-freezing temperatures, thousands of residents of northern Japan camped outside Sunday night, unnerved by aftershocks from the nation&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade, a violent jolt that killed 21 people, injured 1,500 and left seven
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade as the death toll jumped to 31.
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale has jolted Japan&#39;s main northern island of Hokkaido. Four people have been slightly injured by the quake, which struck below the ocean just east of the island&#39;s tip.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan on Tuesday to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade, while the death toll from the quakes rose to 31.
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The United States embassy said on   Wednesday it had received a possible threat against U.S.   facilities in Japan and urged U.S. citizens to exercise   caution.