Peter Ford, reporter for the Christian Science Monitor is in Sendai, Japan. He says that at the nuclear power plant, “things are not getting any better” and that workers are trying to clear a road so that fire trucks can get in while a helicopter tried to dump water on the reactor. However, the helicopter was turned back as the radiation levels were too high.
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