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World is discussing Japan reactors from Fukushima nuclear power Plant. The cooling of fuel rods is in process. Yesterday authorities attempted to cool the reactors by dropping water from helicopters but unable to control the overheating reactors. Some 330 Fukushima emergency workers were trying to keep the nuclear power plant cooled with seawater, to keep fuel rods from overheating and releasing more radioactive material.

TEPCO has been forced to consider other options—including burying the plant just like Chernobyl. On Tuesday, exposure levels at the nuclear plant reached up to 400 millisieverts of radiation an hour before plunging to 0.6 millisievert an hour, according to the More >

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