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The estimated death toll from last week's massive earthquake off the coast of Japan and resulting tsunami climbed past 10,
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Four atomic power plants in Japan have reported damage, but the most urgent situation is at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,
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Mr. Kan said the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear situation might be the biggest crisis Japan has faced since World War II.Japanese officials have confirmed more than 1,
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Overnight temperatures since the disaster have been near freezing,
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Growing concerns over the nuclear situation in Japan have reignited a global debate about nuclear power.In Paris,
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U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, a supporter of nuclear power and chairman of the Senate's Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, has called on the United States to "put the brakes" on future nuclear power plants until the situation in Japan is understood.Despite concerns about the spread of radiation, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says that the United States is not expected to experience harmful levels of radiation from Japan because of the great distance between the two countries.
In its statement, the commission says that weather patterns have taken the release of radioactive steam from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant out to sea.
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