March 12, 2011, 10:13 AM EST
By Yuji Okada, Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuriy Humber
(See EXT2 <GO> for news on quake.)
March 12 (Bloomberg) — Japanese officials battling to prevent a meltdown at a nuclear power station after yesterday’s record earthquake are using seawater to try and cool a reactor and prevent damage to the steel chamber that contains its radioactive core.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said an explosion near the No. 1 reactor at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station
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