Sergey Ponomarev/Associated Press | Cars destroyed in Iwate Prefecture by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. A search went on for bodies in Iwate on Sunday.
By HIROKO TABUCHI and KEITH BRADSHER
TOKYO—Japan is preparing to expand the evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear power plant to address concerns over long-term exposure to radiation, the government announced on Monday.
Thousands of people bowed their heads in silence at 2:46 p.m., marking the passage of exactly one month since a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami brought widespread destruction to a wide swath of Japan’s northeast Pacific coast.
The mourning was punctuated by another strong aftershock off Japan’s Pacific coast, which briefly set off a tsunami warning, killed at least one person and knocked out cooling at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant for almost an hour, underscoring the vulnerability of the plant’s reactors to continuing seismic activity.
Strong Aftershock as Japan Urges More Evacuations
##### By HIROKO TABUCHI and KEITH BRADSHER
TOKYO--Japan is preparing to expand the evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear power plant to address concerns over long-term exposure to radiation, the government announced on Monday.
Thousands of people bowed their heads in silence at 2:46 p.m., marking the passage of exactly one month since a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami brought widespread destruction to a wide swath of Japan's northeast Pacific coast.
The mourning was punctuated by another strong aftershock off Japan's Pacific coast, which briefly set off a tsunami warning, killed at least one person and knocked out cooling at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant for almost an hour, underscoring the vulnerability of the plant's reactors to continuing seismic activity.
