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Radioactive Water from Japan's Nuclear Plant Threatens to Spill into Sea

Some 27,000 people are now dead or missing and 240,000 homeless in the aftermath of Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear crisis may take months to resolve.

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By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Some 27,000 people are now dead or missing and 240,000 homeless in the aftermath of Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear crisis may take months to resolve. Dangers reported today are a high level of radioactivity in pools of water in underground tunnels and small amounts of plutonium in the soil outside the Fukushima nuclear complex. Matt Wald reports for the New York Times.

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