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Friday, March 18, 2011

Disaster in Japan Live Blog: March 18

From Al-Jazeera :

" All times are local in Japan GMT+9)

11:42am
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) says it hopes to re-activate the cooling system at Reactor 2 by Friday after laying a new power line to restore power to the system, adding that it is trying to do the same for the other two reactors.

11:25am
Japan says it will accept technical help from the US to fight the nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant.

9:58am
Japanese workers and troops continued the battle to prevent a nuclear meltdown as alarms over the disaster grew with more foreign governments advising their citizens to flee.

9:55am
Australia on Friday upgraded its warnings about travel to Japan, telling its nationals to stay away from Tokyo, surrounding areas and northern Honshu island.

9:51am
White smoke or steam was seen rising from Reactors 2, 3 and 4 at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan's nuclear watchdog said on Friday, adding that it believed there was still water in the spent fuel pool at Reactor 3."

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