Tag: Nuclear fallout from Fukushima

A Tokyo-based business, economy and technology reporter for The New York Times, HirokoTabuchi, received the following letter from a mother worried for her kids’ health living in Fukushima. Letter from a Fukushima mother When Tomoko-san, a mother of two in Fukushima City, heard from an NGO worker that I was going to be in Fukushima to report on a story

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  Residents, including children,  who live not far from Fukushima’s nuclear power plant are being checked for radiation.  The power plant just suffered a breakdown in the cooling system of a second installation, the number 3 reactor.  It desperately needs to have an infusion of water to keep it from a second explosion! The number 1 reactor has had an

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