Japan's nuclear crisis

Sendai: Japan's nuclear crisis intensified Tuesday as two more explosion and fire rocked the earthquake-affected plant, sending radiation to dangerous levels.
Radiation around the Fukushima plant number 1 on the east coast was a "significant increase", the Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, and his chief spokesman announced level at present is high enough to threaten human health.
In Tokyo, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south-west, the authorities also said that higher than normal level of radiation was discovered in the capital, the largest metropolitan region in the world, but not at harmful levels.
Kahn warned people living up to 10 kilometers (six miles) per 20 km (12 mile) exclusion zone around the nuclear to stay indoors.
The fire, which was subsequently extinguished reportedly burned in the number of four reactors of the plant, according to him, this means that four of six reactors at the facility currently in need.
As nuclear emergency situation, Japan is trying to cope with the magnitude of the damage from record-breaking earthquake and tsunami on Friday, raced to the huge tracts of its north-east, destroying everything in its path.
The number of dead had risen to 2,414, police said Tuesday, but officials say at least 10,000, most likely, expired.
The crisis at the plant aging Fukushima escalated a day after the earthquake and tsunami on Friday, knocked out the cooling system.
On Saturday, an explosion blew apart the building surrounding the factory number-one reactor. On Monday, an explosion hit number three reactors, wounding 11 people and sending plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.
Early Tuesday, an explosion hit number two reactor. This was followed shortly after the explosion of hydrogen, which started a fire at reactor number four.