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April 1, 2011 The 700 or so workers struggling to bring reactors at a crippled nuclear power plant under control "have accepted they will all probably die," says one of those workers' mothers.

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March 31, 2011 International authorities want Japanese officials to consider evacuating a larger area around the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant because of a soil sample taken 25 miles away that contained high levels of radioactive cesium.

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March 30, 2011 Radioactivity levels have risen in seawater near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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March 29, 2011 For some reason — whether an attraction, or cultural tidbit — many people fall in love with cities. In a recent piece for Newsweek, writer Junot Diaz talks about his utter fascination with Tokyo, and says that to love a city relates to who you were when you fell in love with it.

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March 29, 2011 Also, a low level of plutonium has been detected in soil samples from near the crippled facility. That adds to evidence that some fuel rods may have begun to melt.

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March 28, 2011 In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, Obama's upcoming speech on Libya, and the opinion page on the violence between Hamas and Israel. In the second hour, the spirit of Japan, and was TARP a success?

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March 28, 2011 The water that was used to cool reactors at a crippled power plant in Fukushima may itself now be carrying radiation into the soil and sea. Meanwhile, people who fled their homes near the plant are growing increasingly frustrated.

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March 25, 2011 Two weeks after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake sent a massive tsunami crashing into the northeast coast of Japan, the grim numbers continue to rise.

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March 24, 2011 The shadowy, grainy images bring home in a visceral way the challenges that workers at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant face, including the very basic obstacle of working in the dark.

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March 24, 2011 The latest news from Japan, which is recovering from the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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March 23, 2011 That's about the height of a typical six- or seven-story building.

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March 22, 2011 The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan have left scenes of destruction in their wake that almost defy the imagination. A visit to one town on the coast shows scenes of devastation so vast it's hard to take in.

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March 22, 2011 Tuesday's developments in Japan, where cities and towns along parts of the eastern coast were devastated by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and then a tsunami on March 11.

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March 21, 2011 In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, an NPR news special on Libya. In the second hour, an NPR news special on the state of the crisis in Japan, and the pros and cons of U.S. intervention in Libya.

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