Workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned vehicles, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually(几乎是) untouched since the wave struck more than eight ...
Crushed tanks are seen at the ocean-facing side of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, November 12, 2011. Conditions at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, devastated by a tsunami in March, were slowly improving to the point where a "cold shutdown" would be possible as planned, officials said on Saturday during a tour of the facility. The nuclear reactor buildings were still surrounded by ...
A view of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan.
The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No.4 reactor building is seen through bus windows in Fukushima prefecture, November 12, 2011. Members of the media were allowed into the plant on Saturday for the first time since the March 11 tsunami and earthquake triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. REUTERS/David Guttenfelder/Pool (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ENERGY BUSINESS INDUSTRIAL)
A radiation monitor indicates 73.20 microsieverts per hour at the site of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, November 12, 2011. Conditions at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, devastated by a tsunami in March, were slowly improving to the point where a "cold shutdown(冷停堆)" would be possible as planned, officials said on Saturday during a tour of the facility. The nuclear reactor buildings were still ...
The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's upper part of the No.3 reactor building is seen from a bus window in Fukushima prefecture, November 12, 2011. Conditions at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, devastated by a tsunami in March, were slowly improving to the point where a "cold shutdown" would be possible as planned, officials said on Saturday during a tour of the facility. The nuclear reactor buildings were still ...
