BBC News 16 March 2011 Last updated at 22:44 ET

US alarm over Japan atomic crisis

Increasing alarm is expressed in the US about the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with warnings of "potentially lethal" radiation doses at the facility.


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