JAPAN: Police searching for bodies inside of Fukushima Daiichi 20km nuclear exclusion zone hold a moment's silence in memory of the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami

Record ID: 465292

  • Title: JAPAN: Police searching for bodies inside of Fukushima Daiichi 20km nuclear exclusion zone hold a moment's silence in memory of the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami
  • Date: 12th April 2011
  • Summary: MINAMISOMA CITY, FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN (APRIL 11, 2011) (REUTERS) POLICE SEARCHING FOR BODIES 18KM FROM FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR PLANT POLICE IN PROTECTIVE SUITS GETTING OUT OF BUSES MORE OF POLICE IN PROTECTIVE SUITS GETTING OUT OF BUSES POLICE OFFICER IN PROTECTIVE SUIT WATCHING EXCAVATOR RIP APART HOUSE EXCAVATOR RIPPING APART HOUSE EXCAVATOR SHUTTING DOWN AS POLICE PREPARE TO HOLD MOMENT OF SILENCE POLICE OFFICER HOLDING MOMENT OF SILENCE POLICE ANNOUNCING MOMENT OF SILENCE POLICE OFFICER CLOSING EYES FOR MOMENT OF SILENCE POLICE OFFICER CLOSING EYES FOR MOMENT OF SILENCE IN FRONT OF EXCAVATORS MORE OF POLICE OFFICER CLOSING EYES FOR MOMENT OF SILENCE WORKER HOLDING MOMENT OF SILENCE OUTSIDE OF EXCAVATOR POLICE RETURNING TO WORK AFTER MOMENT OF SILENCE WORKER INSIDE OF EXCAVATOR RETURNING TO WORK DESTROYED HOUSE ABOVE OCEAN SOCKS HANGING IN HOUSE ABOVE OCEAN WITH DESTROYED SEA WALLS
  • Embargoed: 27th April 2011 13:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: Japan, Japan
  • Country: Japan
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVA9FPRARNV6GGFW8CFAC2PA8QTL
  • Story Text: Exactly one month after Japan's massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the tsunami that followed, police searching for bodies inside the nuclear exclusion zone held a moment of silence on Monday (April 11) to remember the victims.
    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has a 20-km (12-mile) exclusion ring from which people were forced to evacuate and those who live in a 10-km (6-mile) zone beyond that have been encouraged to leave or to stay indoors.
    As such, the search for bodies inside the exclusion zone has only recently begun and police still wear protective suits while conducting the searches for the missing in the mud-coated rice fields and devastated houses.
    Police stopped work at exactly 2:46JST (0546GMT) to mark one month since the disaster that left at least 28,000 people dead or missing.
    Fukushima Daiichi plant owner TEPCO is struggling to contain the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.
    Efforts to regain control of six reactors hit by the 15-metre (49 feet) high tsunami, which caused partial meltdowns to some reactor cores after fuel rods were overheated, has been hindered by 60,000 tonnes of radioactive water.
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
  • Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2011. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
  • Usage Terms/Restrictions: None
Register