Monday, March 14, 2011

Japan nuclear crisis escalates as third Fukushima reactor faces meltdown | World news | The Guardian

The nuclear crisis in Japan's stricken north-east escalated as officials admitted a third nuclear reactor could be in partial meltdown and warned the situation was "even worse" than in the other two stricken units. It followed a second dramatic hydrogen explosion at the plant.

The announcement came as the official death toll from the worst earthquake and tsunami in Japan's recorded history reached almost 1,900, with tens of thousands still unaccounted for. Millions of survivors struggled through another day with dwindling supplies of food and fuel, amid aftershocks, blazes and tsunami alerts.

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