Explosions At Japan Nuclear Plant Puts Reactor "On The Brink"
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<p>The No. 3 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant burned Monday after a blast following an earthquake and tsunami.</p>
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/15/2011-03-15_quaking_on_hudson_regulators_say_indian_point__35_miles_away__is_safe_but_thats_.html">The Daily News cover story today</a> reminds readers that the Indian Point nuclear plant is closer to more people than any other nuclear plant in America.
<p>An evacuee is screened for radiation exposure at a testing center Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, after a nuclear power plant on the coast of the prefecture was damaged by Friday's earthquake.</p>
<p>A convoy of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force arrives in the tsunami-hit area for recovery operations in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday.</p>
<p>A truck dangles from a collapsed bridge in Ishinomaki, northern Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, four days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. </p>
<p>Demonstrators show signs reading 'Switch Off' as a protest against the nuclear power policy of chancellor Angela Merkel's government near the German parliament in Berlin, Tuesday March 15, 2011. Germany <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/europe/16euronuke.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">will take seven of its 17 nuclear reactors offline</a> for three months while the country reconsiders plans to extend the life of its atomic power plants in the wake of events in Japan, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. </p>
<p>Upon hearing another tsunami warning, a father tries to flee for safety with his just reunited four-month-old baby girl who was spotted by Japan's Self-Defense Force member in the rubble of tsunami-torn Ishinomaki Monday, March 14, 2011</p>
<p>People stand around a vessel washed ashore by Friday's tsunami in Ofunato, Japan</p>
<p>A woman carrying a girl on her back walks in a devastated area during a search operation in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan</p>
<p>A radiation detector marks 0.6 microsieverts, exceeding normal day data Tuesday March 15, 2011, near Shibuya train station in Tokyo.</p>