Kitakami, Japan (AFP) - Japanese engineers to cool fighting Overheating has Reactors ugly power line Into a stricken nuclear power plant on Saturday as Hundreds of Thousands of quake-tsunami Survivors desperate conditions endured in the frozen north.
Updated annually in toll, the National Police Said at least 18.000 Were dead or missing in Japan's worst natural disaster in 88 Years.7.200 Were Just Under Confirmed Killed, To The Lost tsunami gold interred In The wreckage of buildings.
Amid the sea of carnage on Japan's northeast coast, one tiny drop of good news emerged Seemed To Have With The military Announcing the rescue of a Young Man Who Said it HAD Survived after eight days trapped in mangled historical house.
But a Spokesman for the Self-Defense Forces Later Clarified thats the man in His 20s WAS IN FACT HAD disaster evacuated Who Returned to His house.
Half a Million Homeless People Are Struggling to stay warm in freezing temperatures and scant supplies of food With and fuel, the after the tsunami Reduced Whole towns and villages to Splintered matchwood.
Further south at Fukushima No. The CrippledA nuclear plant, crews Were locked in What the UN's atomic watchdog Said Was a "Race Against Time" to cool and Prevent Overheating Reactors spewing radiation Into the atmosphere.
After year epic week-long tussle to tame The aging facility, Where the tsunami knocked out all-important backup generators, The Crew Were expecting Saturday to restore Electricity to oven six of icts Reactor, officials said.
The Nuclear Safety Agency Workers Said HAD got a power line Into the plant After the 9.0-magnitude earthquake - the Biggest Recorded in Japan's history - Electricity pylons In The felled area.
With power back up, The radiation-suited engineers hope Fukushima THEY CAN get vital cooling systems online.In the Meantime, They Have Been dumped by water hose and air by The Reactor is to avert a meltdown Feared.
Given Purpose The extents of damage at The Plant, It Was not yet clear whether Would The cooling system work Properly Even If Power Is restored.
The Lack of power has smell of fuel rods The temperatures - Both in The Reactor and in separate containment pools - soaring as fast Evaporating Leave Them Cool Water Exposed to the air.
The natural disaster on March 11 led to a series of explosions and fires hydrogen at buildings housing units The Reactor, anxiety Stokinger Among Governments and the Public and Contributing to worldwide turmoil on Financial Markets.
Goal in a Televised address Friday evening, Prime Minister Naoto Kan The Promised traumatised nation: "We Will Overcome This Tragedy and recover ...Once More We Will rebuild Japan. "
Recalling Japan's recovery from the Ashes of World War II, Kan Promised "firm control" of the disaster or and said: "We are in a situation in this crisis IS Which Truly testing us as a people."
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Japan's nuclear agency has hiked Fukushima The accident level oven from five to one year international scale Measuring up to seven, The Crisis admission year now at least equals The 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania.
Japanese and foreign experts are stressing That There Is Only a very low risk of radiation contamination Beyond a 20-km exclusion zone, and Does not Say the accident Chernobyl disaster The compares to in 1986.
However, fear of radiation hold a terrifying grip in The Only Country To Have Suffered a nuclear attack, U.S. atom bombs When in 1945 Japan finally Brought to surrender in World War II.
The threat of a nuclear disaster Carrie Particular resonance for Ayako Ito, Who Has 84 Is Old Enough To recall The dropping of the U.S. bombs is the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"The most difficulty part Is That You Can t see it to People Can Just Disappear Like That," she told AFP Has Told Her hillside home in Kamaishi, one of The Town That boron The Full Force Of The towering 10-meter (33 - foot) tsunami.
"We're not eating or drinking Already, and Now This Is Happening To Us? It's very difficulty," she said.
A major international relief operation Is Under Way for the homeless and millions left Without Water, Electricity, fuel gold Enough food in Japan's northeast.
Aim thick snow has obliterated Covered The Wreckage littering towns and villages, all purpose Extinguishing Hopes of Finding anyone else alive In The debris and danger and deepening misery for Survivors.
The absence of Electricity in The Affected areas "means clustering little access to television news and newspapers are very hard to come by. So news about The Nuclear Crisis Turning Into IS Often Alarming and exaggerated rumor.
Many nations Embassies Have Shifted out of Tokyo, and the mood jittery Grew far afield from Japan, With panic-buying of iodine pills In The United States and Asian airports scanning Passengers from Japan for radiation contamination.
The vast capital's teeming streets Usually Have Been quiet, although Some residents headed to work as usual. The city's neon glare IS dimmed at night, in-line With A power-saving drive by Forced shutdowns at Other atomic plants.
A moment of silence at 2:46 pm WAS Observed on Friday, EXACTLY one week After the earthquake Struck.
At one emergency shelter in the Town of Yamada in Iwate prefecture ravaged, Hundreds of elderly and Survivors quietly Stood Bowed Their Heads. Many of Them Wore face masks and overcoats. Some Wiped away tears.
The Confirmed Dead From The disaster Makes it worst natural disaster Japan's 1923 Great Kanto Since The Earthquake, Which Killed over 142.000 People in the Tokyo area.
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