Japan tries to avert nuclear meltdown; 10,000 may be killed
One News Sunday 13th March, 2011
photos Japan fought today to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that charged across its northeast rose to more than 10,000. Broadcaster NHK, quoting a police official, said more than 10,000 people may have been killed as the wall of water triggered by Friday's 8.9-magnitude quake surged across the coastline, reducing whole towns to rubble. Officials worked desperately to prevent the fuel rods in the? damaged plants from overheating after radiation leaked into the air. The government said a building housing a second reactor was at risk of exploding after a blast blew the roof off a different plant the day before. The nuclear accident, the worst since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, sparked sti...
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