Japan earthquake
Live updates of developments after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, selected by Reuters.com editors and readers. To see updates from Reuters only, click "Options" and turn off comments.
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Live updates of developments after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, selected by Reuters.com editors and readers. To see updates from Reuters only, click "Options" and turn off comments. You can also follow Reuters coverage on Japan via our page here www.reuters.com and our Japan Twitter feed here www.twitter.com .
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The description under the picture of Reactor #2 (below) sounds strange. Question for anyone out there: Do nuclear reactors usually have windows"? Quote: "Aerial view shows white smoke billowing from a "window" in the No. 2 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant..." -

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Pedestrians walk past a billboard with an internet address asking for help for Japan near a shopping centre in Moscow March 25, 2011. The site offers printable instructions on how to donate money for relief to Japan following the earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin
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Bloomberg: "The cores of three reactors are still badly damaged and it’s not clear that cooling can be restored, Edwin Lyman, a researcher at the Washington, D.C.-based Union of Concerned Scientists said." noir.bloomberg.com -
Order amid Chaos www.nytimes.com -
Tokyo nuclear firm protected, but not shareholders (By John Foley, a Reuters Breakingviews columnist) reut.rs -
Geithner says Japan won't harm U.S. recovery reut.rs -
Japan rebuilding to drive materials demand reut.rs -
Radioactive substances and their impact on health reut.rs -

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Japan disaster in figures reut.rs -

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@SteveMT The building you see is non-structural, intended mostly as an environmental enclosure to keep the rain off the equipment inside. Inside that structure is a very thick concrete structure that protects the reactor itself. I don't know if windows are normal or not, but there is no particular reason not to have one. -

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On the 9pm news last night on NHK, they covered an aspect that I hadn't seen much talk about. While we know the people need to evacuate, they had a section talking about the animals in the evacuation zone. One farmer had 40 cows that produce about a ton of milk every day. He is in the 20-30km zone. He has to feed them, but is running out of food, and he has to milk them daily (not good to delay milking a dairy cow). After milking them, he has to dump the milk every day. As a result, he's losing the value of a ton of milk every day, not to mention the feed, which is all out of his pocket. The two major problems are 1) What will he do if the evacuation zone is expanded to 30km? Where will he bring the animals (and it isn't something that can be done in just one day)? -
Post-earthquake concept stocks reut.rs -
@ George Chen What do you think of this one? =) www.lngworldnews.com -
High level of iodine 131 in seawater near N-plant www3.nhk.or.jp -
Fresh water injected into No. 2 reactor : www3.nhk.or.jp -
Experts unsure on source of radiation leak www.yomiuri.co.jp -

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Britain votes on EU membership after tight and bitter campaign
LONDON Britons will decide the future of their country and Europe on Thursday in a vote on European Union membership after a bitter campaign that appeared to divide the nation down the middle.






