Iran's Unmanned Flying Saucer

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Iran Announces Launch of Its Unmanned Flying Saucer

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Break out the foil hats: Iran has built a UFO.

This photo accompanies an actual news release from Iranian news service Fars, which claims the Islamic Republic has built a flying saucer.

Of course, it's possible Iran's news agents chose to illustrate their announcement with a screen shot from a 1950s B movie. But the Fars News Service does not explain the photo's origin, simply stating that the flying saucer was unveiled in a special ceremony.

The ship is called Zohal -- Saturn in Persian -- and is designed for aerial imaging. Zohal has a data downlink and can fly in both indoor and outdoor spaces, according to the Fars News Service. The Daily Mail points out that Fars is a hard-line state-run news service. But with this photo, we can't help but think of the homophone farce instead.

The news release states that "the flying machine is equipped with an auto-pilot system, GPS (Global Positioning System) and two separate imaging systems with full HD 10 mega-pixel picture quality and is able to take and send images simultaneously."

But is Zohal actually a little "cuadrotour" drone? Another news release, from the perhaps more reliable Iranian Students' News Agency, shows a picture of a quadrocopter grasping what looks like an old-school Pentax. The news release says that this, instead, is Zohal.

But again, this photo's origin is unclear. SUAS News, which covers the UAV community, says this is a DraganFlyer X6. "We doubt very much that the Canadian company has sold airframes to Iran knowingly," reports SUAS' Gary Mortimer.

So which one is it?

IEEE Spectrum's Automaton blog points out that Iran may indeed have built a Coanda-effect UAV, which looks like a flying saucer. The plate-shaped UAV has a rotor at the top that thrusts air downward, providing lift and thrust.

No matter Zohal's actual design, it's not the first time Iran has claimed to have built a ridiculous piece of machinery for defense and surveillance purposes. The Bavar 2 flying boat thing, unveiled last fall, supposedly packs automatic weapons and surveillance equipment.

Iran has announced several achievements in robotics and other technologies during the past year. It launched some turtles into space in 2010, and unveiled a dancing humanoid robot named Surena-2.

But a flying saucer just seems too good -- really, just too silly -- to be true. Read more at www.foxnews.com

 

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Is Religion Heading Toward Extinction?

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Study Finds Religion May Be Heading for Extinction in Parts of World

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March 9: Pope Benedict XVI salutes the faithful during the traditional Ash Wednesday mass in the St. Sabina church in Rome.

Parts of the world are literally losing their religion, according to a new study.

The study, conducted by the American Physical Society, finds that religion is dying out in nine countries.

The findings unveiled at an APS meeting in Dallas show that religion may become extinct in Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Canada, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

The study, conducted by Richard Wiener of the University of Arizona, and Daniel Abrams and Haley Yaple of Northwestern University, took data stretching back 100 years for those nine countries.

"In a large number of modern secular democracies, there's been a trend that folk are identifying themselves as non-affiliated with religion; in the Netherlands the number was 40 percent, and the highest number was in the Czech Republic, where the number was 60 percent."

The study also found that "Americans without affiliation comprise the only religious group growing in all 50 states."

"In 2008 those claiming no religion rose to 15 percent nationwide, with a maximum in Vermont at 34 percent," the study says.

The study concludes that religion in these societies might one day disappear.

"The model predicts that for societies in which the perceived utility of not adhering is greater than the utility of adhering, religion will be driven toward extinction." Read more at www.foxnews.com

 

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Fla. Mayor Knocked Out at Town Meeting

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Florida Mayor Attacked at Town Council Meeting

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A town council meeting in Florida was abruptly interrupted when the mayor was attacked and knocked to the ground, Fox 35 reported Tuesday night.

Town of Windermere’s mayor Gary Bruhn got into a shouting match with the town manager’s husband. The meeting was adjourned, and police officers evacuated the building, but before the room was cleared, someone punched or pushed Bruhn, knocking him to the ground.

Paramedics arrived and transported the major to a nearby hospital, which was later placed on lockdown.

The altercation comes a day after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement released its findings into an investigation of Town of Windermere’s police department. The FDLE report revealed that money, weapons and confiscated drugs were missing from the department's evidence and property locker. FDLE announced additional charges levied against Daniel Saylor, the town’s police chief.

The details of meeting’s fight are still unclear. Earlier in the evening, Mayor Bruhn suggested in an address that the council fire Town Manager Cecelia Bernier. He cited several of the FDLE findings regarding mismanagement of evidence and an accusation that Bernier even voided traffic citations for people she knew.

"Our residents' safety was compromised by tickets being voided, cases dropped and our reputation tarnished," he said.

Windermere police officers told Fox 35 that they believe the mayor was punched, or pushed, by the husband of the town manager. The mayor offered a motion that Bernier be removed. No one would second the motion so it died, which means that for now, Bernier retains her position.

The council wanted to talk about the issue some more and never voted on it. That's when Bernier's husband went to the podium and made some statements.

Bernier's husband left the police department Tuesday night after being questioned. He wouldn't answer any questions from the media. It is still unclear if he will be charged or arrested. Authorities are still investigating.

Town of Windermere was also in the media in 2009 when Tiger Woods crashed his SUV in the affluent Orange County community.

Last year, Saylor was arrest after FDLE agents said he used his position to hinder a sexual battery investigation against one of his friends. Saylor, 44, was charged with one count of giving unlawful compensation for official behavior, a second-degree felony, and one count official misconduct, a third-degree felony. Read more at www.foxnews.com

 

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YouTube: Counter Stopped on Biden Video

YouTube Says View Counter Stopped on Drudge-Linked Biden Video to Prevent ‘Artificial Inflation” of Count; Says It Will Update Later

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YouTube Says View Counter Stopped on Drudge-Linked Biden Video to Prevent ‘Artificial Inflation” of Count; Says It Will Update Later

By Matt Cover

Vice President Joe Biden (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr).

(CNSNews.com) - YouTube says the view counter on a video clip that is linked to the highly popular Drudge Report has stopped--at the implausibly low number of 301--because YouTube is following its standard procedure for preventing "artificial inflation” of the video’s viewcount and ensuring that all viewers that are counted are actual people and not computer programs.

The Drudge-linked video is a clip of then-Sen. Joe Biden appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball” and telling host Chris Matthews that he stands by his assertion that it would have been an impeachable offense for then-President George W. Bush to attack Iran without prior congressional authorization. Biden states in the clip that were Bush to attack Iran without congressional authorization he would “lead an effort to impeach him.”

The Drudge Report, which has millions of readers, had a link to the video at the very top of its page for awhile this morning. Later, the link to the clip was moved down to a spot in the Report’s left hand column. Nonetheless, the view counter on the YouTube page hosting the video was frozen implausibly at 301 hits.

When CNSNews.com asked YouTube about the frozen viewcount for this Drudge-linked video, YouTube answered by pointing to a statement on its website.

“YouTube employs proprietary technology to prevent the artificial inflation of a video’s viewcount by spam bots, malware and other means,” said the statement. “We validate views to ensure the accuracy of the viewcount of all videos beginning with the first view. This validation process becomes publicly visible when the viewcount reaches 300.”

“At this point, the viewcount may slow or temporarily freeze until we have time to verify that all further views are legitimate,” said the statement. “Rest assured that the views system is working as intended, and that the viewcount will update as soon as the system has verified the legitimacy of the views.”

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Japanese Water Supply in Jeopardy

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Tokyo officials issue warning against giving water to infants due to radiation.

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Workers Evacuated and Tokyo Water Unsafe

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Workers Evacuated From Nuclear Plant as Tokyo Water Deemed Unsafe

Water Tested Two Times Above the Limits for Radioactive Iodine, According to Tokyo Water Bureau

By KEVIN DOLAK and JAMES HILL

Black smoke emerging from Unit 3 of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan forced the temporary evacuation of workers, Tokyo's utility company said Wednesday. Operators of the power station have been toiling to cool the reactors and spent fuel pools at the plant after it was damaged by the March 11 tsunami, which knocked out power to the cooling systems. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said today that he regrets that rain and wind have spread radiation from Fukushima. Earlier today Japanese officials issued a statement advising that tap water in Tokyo not safe for infants as it has tested two times above the limits for radioactive iodine. The Tokyo Water Bureau said that the number of Becquerel per unit detected was 210. The allowable level for infants is 100, while the allowable level for adults is 300. Officials said that babies in Tokyo should not be fed tap water, but that the level is not an immediate health risk for adults. Speaking with the press today, Edano said that the Japanese government is looking into what can be done for families with infants. Radiation has now seeped into vegetables, raw milk, the water supply and even seawater in the areas surrounding the plant. Broccoli was added Wednesday to a list of tainted vegetables, now including spinach, canola and chrysanthemum greens. Meanwhile, this morning a spokesman for the nuclear safety agency said that high-level radiation fields of 500 millisieverts/hr were detected at Unit 2's turbine building a few days ago, and that is preventing workers from trying to restore the power at the control room. At those levels a worker would reach Japan's imposed

emergency exposure limit of 250 milliSvr within just 30 minutes. Exposure of 500 milliSvr is the generally accepted threshold at which individuals would begin to suffer immediate health effects. The temperature and pressure readings in the core of Unit 1 are also a major concern. The vessel is designed to a threshold of 302 degrees Celsius. Currently its external temperature is now about 400 degrees Celsius. It has been reported that the unit is not in danger of melting, but seawater is now being injected at nine times the previous rate. That, too, has to be done very carefully, as adding water increases the pressure inside the reactor vessel. If pressure gets too high, it would likely result in the need to release of radioactive steam to reduce the pressure and avoid damage to the vessel, or even worse, an explosion. While the hope is that power will be back on soon – which will help re-establish some sense of what is really happening -- the actual conditions of the plant and all these flare-ups present their own unique dangers. This all force workers to focus on mitigating

the risks as they emerge. Additionally, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today it will stop all milk products and vegetable and fruit products imported from the Japan's prefectures of Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma from entering the U.S. -- a response to public fears about the Fukushima nuclear plant. This announcement comes despite the agency's repeated assurances that radiation found in foods in Japan was small, and posed no risk to the U.S. food supply. Economic costs of the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami could reach $309 billion, according to the Associated Press. Utilities have imposed power rationing, while many factories remain closed and key rail lines are impassable. The Associated Press estimates the current death toll at over 9,400, with more than 14,700 still missing. Read more at abcnews.go.com

 

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Behind Reactor Battle: Legion of Grunts

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Behind Reactor Battle, a Legion of Grunts

By PHRED DVORAK

The glory, such as it is, for battling blazes and radiation leaks at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex has belonged to firefighters, soldiers and a corps of plant workers dubbed the Fukushima 50.

But much of the grinding grunt work of taming Japan's worst nuclear accident has fallen to a less-visible group—hundreds of industry foot soldiers who support the effort by carrying pipes, clearing debris and performing other manual labor amid the threat of elevated radiation.

In normal times, thousands of workers perform routine tasks of reactor maintenance at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. Now, many of them are being called to volunteer to work, at standard pay, at the troubled plant.

"I'm scared," says Kenji Tada, 29 years old, a worker at protective-coating specialist Tokai Toso Co. "But someone has to go."

Mr. Tada's normal job includes painting corroded spots on reactor equipment. On Monday, he is scheduled to join several hundred other workers who will be on call for duty at the compound. Some are engineers and operations specialists. Others will drag electrical cables, hook up water pipes or otherwise provide on-the-ground muscle in the effort to bring the overheating reactors under control.

Accounts of the work performed at the site are largely second-hand. Workers, some of whom stay at a soccer facility on the edge of the evacuation zone that surrounds the plant, have little contact with outsiders. Phone communications are spotty.

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Mr. Tada, a soft-spoken man with a pleasant round face and black glasses,says in an interview that colleagues at the complex who have phoned him said they have been positioning pumps needed to bring water to the site. They have told him radiation levels aren't so bad, he says.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, and other companies that are sending employees to the Fukushima Daiichi plant say they aren't paying the workers extra or providing benefits beyond existing accident and sickness insurance. The companies say they have been too busy dealing with the emergency to consider such things. Workers haven't raised the issue either, they say, in a country where pushing for more cash in such a time of crisis is seen as crass.

"There isn't a single person who's been doing this because of money,'' says Tadashi Ikeda, senior managing director of Tokai Toso. Plenty of workers are locals who have been forced out of their homes by the radiation levels and are eager to help get things back to normal, he adds.

Mr. Tada says he typically earns about ¥200,000 ($2,470) a month, well below Japan's average monthly salary of ¥291,000. "It can't be helped," he says, adding his mother doesn't want him to go. "Someone has to do it."

Like Mr. Tada, who studied construction in technical school, many of the workers are lightly educated. Their key skill is a familiarity with radioactive environments—a plus when working in areas where radiation levels topped 2,000 microsieverts an hour for much of Monday, around 30,000 times normal levels before the accident. Levels Thursday morning had fallen to slightly above 200 microsieverts an hour.

Some 60 essential staff live on the reactor site in a heavily shielded building, leading to early impressions that the fate of the reactor-cooling effort hung in the hands of a crew somewhat misleadingly dubbed the Fukushima 50. Those core managers, led by the director of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, guide the recovery effort, operate the control room and keep an eye on reactor readings. They rarely leave the building.

The rest, from firefighters to electric-line layers, are pulled out when their shifts are done, to stay where radiation levels are lower. The soccer facility that is one staging ground for forays to the complex, J-Village, is so close to the 12-mile border of the government's evacuation zone that Fukushima prefecture says it is within the zone. The Defense Ministry says it isn't.

On Wednesday, Tepco dispatched 330 of its workers to the plant grounds. Another 224 workers were sent in from what Tepco calls "cooperating companies,'' such as Tokai Toso.

Mr. Tada is in a group of semiskilled workers who hover somewhere in the middle of Japan's nuclear power-plant ecosystem. At the bottom are laborers, often paid by the day. At the top are managers and engineers from plant operator Tepco and companies like Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., which maintain the reactors.

The Hitachi group has sent 120 people to the plant at Tepco's request, many from subsidiary Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd. The Toshiba group is supplying 100 people. Tokai Toso, which works for Tepco subsidiary Toden Kogyo Co., has contributed six workers so far, on a voluntary basis, says Mr. Ikeda. "Tepco has been good to us for 40 years," the senior managing director said. "We want to do what we can."

Radiation managers at Tepco take readings at the places where they want to send each day's workers. Shifting winds and leaks from unstable reactors have meant radiation levels in the complex have veered wildly in the space of hours, and hot spots move from one area to another.

Workers wear protective gear and a mask and must have had training in dealing with radioactive environments. Each person also wears two badges, in chest pockets under gear, to track radiation exposure on each visit. Each worker is limited to a total of 250,000 microsieverts for the duration of the crisis, a limit that was lifted last week from 100,000 microsieverts—the borderline for what is considered "low-dose" exposure.

Mr. Tada says colleagues already at the site have told him they were exposed to around 100 microsieverts of radiation after five hours of work, an amount equivalent to one chest X-ray. That is less than the 190 microsieverts Mr. Tada says he logged in four hours of work one recent day, before the crisis.

Not everyone is so sanguine. At the Saitama Super Arena, a stadium north of Tokyo that has been converted into a refugee shelter for people forced from towns near the Fukushima plant, Mitsuyoshi Oigawa says his son was among those asked to return.

Mr. Oigawa says the call came six days after the quake struck and that his son will likely work at the plant for two or three days. Mr. Oigawa says he has tried without success to call his son's cellphone since then. He worries that radiation exposure could sicken his son.

"There's no way to express what I'd do for him," says Mr. Oigawa, 70. "I'd go in his place if I could."

In an evacuee camp in the city of Tamura, about 20 miles west of the Fukushima Daiichi complex, another worker for a nuclear-equipment maker says he got his call to report for duty earlier this week. The man says he thinks he will be carrying and laying pipes that will bring water to reactor No. 3.

The high-school graduate, whose salary is similar to Mr. Tada's, says he was told he could refuse the call. But he says he felt duty-bound to accept, musing that he would be in the position of sacrificing himself for the good of others, as he says Japanese pilots did in World War II suicide missions. "If the call comes, there's only one thing I can say: 'Yes, I'll go.' I thought of the kamikaze—sacrificing yourself for someone else," he says. "My heart is calm."

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First pictures emerge of power plant

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First pictures emerge of the Fukushima Fifty as steam starts pouring from all four reactors at the stricken nuclear power plant

By Matt Blake and Richard Shears

The darkness is broken only by the flashing torchlight of the heroes who stayed behind.

These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under which the brave men work to save their nation from full nuclear meltdown.

The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to cool overheating reactors and spent fuel rods since the disaster on March 11.

Conundrum: Two of the Fukushima Fifty pour over plans as they try to work out how to fix the stricken plant

Efforts to control the leakage of radiation from the crippled nuclear plant in Japan received a setback early today when steam began pouring from four reactor buildings.

Until then, black smoke billowing from one of the reactors had been the only concern - an incident which resulted in all work to cool four of the reactors being suspended on Wednesday.

At first light in Japan today officials were alarmed to see steam pouring from reactors 1, 2, 3, and 4.

It is the first time that steam has been seen rising from the No.1 reactor since the Fukushima plant was hit by the tsunami nearly two weeks ago.

Rising steam suggests that the fuel rods in the reactors are overheating and evaporating the small amount of water that surrounds them.

Darkness: A worker looks at gauges in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2 at the plant

Grainy: Workers collect data in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2. They must wear rubber suits to prevent as much radiation from entering their bodies as possible

Firemen this week have been blasting water into the reactors using long hoses but officials were not able to tell whether the desperate work was covering the fuel rods.

Then, when black smoke began pouring out of one of the reactors - suggesting that something was burning - all water-blasting work was suspended and everyone trying to stabilise the plant was ordered to evacuate.

It is believed the steam rising from the four reactors today is from spent fuel rods that have been kept outside the main containment structure where currently active fuel rods are located.

But the spent rods must still be kept immersed in water. If they are not, radioactivity is released into the atmosphere.

Despite sweltering heat from the damaged reactors, they must work in protective bodysuits to protect their skin from the poisonous radioactive particles that fill the air around them.

But as more radiation seeps into the atmosphere minute by minute, they know this job will be their last.

Teamwork: Outside the men connect transmission lines to restore electric power supply to Unit 3 and Unit 4

Aiming high: Workers in protective suits work on a transmission tower to restore electricity to Units 5 and 6

Damage: A collapsed eave lies outside the security gate for Unit 1 and Unit 2. Much of the plant was destroyed by the tsunami

Five are believed to have already died and 15 are injured while others have said they know the radiation will kill them.

The original 50 brave souls were later joined by 150 colleagues and rotated in teams to limit their exposure to the radiation spewing from over-heating spent fuel rods after a series of explosions at the site. They were today joined by scores more workers.

Japan has rallied behind the workers with relatives telling of heart-breaking messages sent at the height of the crisis.

A woman said her husband continued to work while fully aware he was being bombarded with radiation. In a heartbreaking email, he told his wife: 'Please continue to live well, I cannot be home for a while.'

One girl tweeted in a message translated by ABC: 'My dad went to the nuclear plant, I've never seen my mother cry so hard. People at the plant are struggling, sacrificing themselves to protect you. Please dad come back alive.'

But it is becoming even more pressing that the Fukushima succeed after it was revealed today that Tokyo's tap water has been contaminated by unusual levels of radiation.

The government have issued a warning to all mothers urging them not to let babies drink the tap water.

The warning came after it emerged last night that radioactive particles have reached Europe and are heading towards Britain in the wake of the catastrophe that officials say could cost up to £190billion - making it the costliest natural disaster in history.

And fresh safety concerns arose today as black smoke was spotted emerging from Unit 3 of the plant, prompting a temporary evacuation of all workers from the complex, operators Tokyo Electric Power company said.

Tokyo Water Bureau officials said levels of radioactive iodine in some city tap water contained 210 becquerels per litre of iodine 131 - two times the recommended limit for infants.

They warned parents not to give babies tap water, although they said it is not an immediate health risk for adults.

Nearly two weeks after the twin March 11 disasters, nuclear officials were still struggling to stabilise the damaged and overheated Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, which has been leaking radiation since the disasters knocked out the plant's cooling systems.

Radiation has seeped into vegetables, raw milk, the water supply and even seawater in the areas surrounding the plant.

Meanwhile, officials in Iceland have detected ‘minuscule amounts’ of radioactive particles believed to have come from Fukushima, the site of the worst nuclear accident in 25 years.

Last night the British Government said radiation from Japan had not been detected by the UK’s network of monitoring stations set up after the 1986 Chernobyl explosion. A spokesman said any signs of radiation were not expected in the next few days.

However, France’s nuclear agency said tiny amounts were likely to arrive in the country by today.

Water spray: Workers at Fukushima yesterday try to cool the plant

Smoke: Fresh safety concerns arose today as black smoke was spotted emerging from Unit 3 of the plant, prompting a temporary evacuation of all workers from the complex

The traces of radioactive iodine are being measured by a network of 63 monitoring stations as they spread east across the Pacific, over North America and into the North Atlantic.

Radiation from nuclear accidents and explosions is monitored by the UN’s Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation, based in Vienna.

A source said several stations had detected particles believed to have been released from Fukushima in the days after it was hit by the earthquake and tsunami.

‘Reykjavik is the first in Europe,’ the source added. The levels are about one millionth of the natural background radiation, and pose no threat to the public, experts said.

‘We are not expecting it to be detected in Britain in the next few days,’ a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said.

Japanese officials said the health risk was low outside the plant, but were yesterday chastised by the International Atomic Energy Agency watchdog over a lack of information about how much radiation had been emitted.

Levels in Tokyo rose ten-fold in the days after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake earlier this month, and tiny traces have been detected in California and Washington DC.

The IAEA lacks data on the temperatures of the spent fuel pools of reactors 1, 3 and 4 at Fukushima.

Destroyed: A road in Naka, Iwake prefecture on March 11 shortly after being devastated by the earthquake

Transformation: The carriageway has already been reconstructed and tarmaced ready for use

It has been claimed the plant was storing more uranium than it was designed to hold, and had repeatedly missed mandatory safety checks.

The official death toll in Japan has exceeded 9,400. At least 13,200 people are still missing and 350,000 are in shelters.

Yesterday firemen connected electric cables to the plant in the hope of restarting cooling systems. Although hundreds of tons of water have been blasted into two of the damaged reactors, smoke and steam continue to pour out.

U.S. halts food imports from affected areas of Japan

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it will halt imports of dairy products and produce from the area of Japan where a nuclear reactor is leaking radiation.

The FDA says that those foods will be detained at entry and will not be sold to the public. The agency previously said it would just step up screening of those foods.

Other foods imported from Japan, including seafood, will still be sold to the public but screened first for radiation.

Japanese foods make up less than 4 percent of all U.S. imports, and the FDA has said it expects no risk to the U.S. food supply from radiation.

Contamination concerns: Various types of fish are sold at a shop near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market. The U.S. have halted all dairy imports from Japan and will screen all other foods before allowing entry

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