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Fukushima, Japan— They risk explosions, fire and an invisible enemy — radiation that could kill quickly or decades later — as they race to avert disaster inside a dark, overheated nuclear plant. The 180 emergency workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi complex are emerging as public heroes in the wake of a disaster... 

TOKYO - Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm about leaking radiation and said it was sending aircraft to help Americans leave the country. Engineers tried to run power from the main grid to start water pumps needed to cool two reactors... 

white smoke billows from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, Fukushima Wednesday morning, taken 30km away Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant faces a grave situation at the No. 4 reactor, which the government is monitoring closely, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said today. The first priority is to...