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**FILE** In this photo from Oct. 3, 2008, six reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant stand in line intact in Okumamachi in Fukushima Prefecture (state), northeastern Japan. Reactors, from bottom left, are: Unit 4, Unit 3, Unit 2, Unit 1, Unit 5 and Unit 6, top. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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A ferry is stranded atop a building in Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture on Sunday. The Japanese government doubled the number of troops pressed into rescue operations to about 100,000, following the worst-ever earthquake to hit Japan. (Yomiuri Shimbun via Associated Press)
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YOUNG VICTIM: A child evacuated from the area surrounding the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged in Friday's earthquake is checked for radiation exposure with other residents on Sunday in Koriyama city in Japan's Fukushima prefecture. (Associated Press)
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Attendants help a patient in a wheelchair as they evacuate a tsunami-affected hospital at Otsuchi, northeastern Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011, two days after a powerful 9.0-magnitude quake and a tsunami with 30-foot-high waves hit the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A woman searches through the rubble of her home in Ofunato in Iwate prefecture Sunday. Her house was destroyed in Friday's powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami. At least 1.4 million households were without water Sunday, and 2 million households had no electricity. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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Soldiers from Japan's Self-Defense Forces rescue a tsunami victim from a flooded area in Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on Sunday. The earthquake and tsunami killed at least 1,400 people, according to official estimates, and hundreds are missing. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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A woman holds a photo of Haiti's ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide during a rally in Port-au-Prince. (Associated Press)
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Thick smoke billows from an industrial plant in Kamaishi, Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011, two days after giant earchquake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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An official scans a man for radiation at an emergency center in Koriyama, Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011, two days after a giant earthquake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Light planes and vehicles sit among the debris after they were swept by a tsunami that struck Sendai airport in northern Japan on March 11, 2011. A magnitude 8.9 earthquake slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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This image provided by NASA was photographed by the spacecraft Messenger, the first ever images made from a spacecraft while in orbit around the planet. It shows Mercury's horizon as the spacecraft was moving northward along the first orbit during which MDIS was turned on. On March 17, 2011 Messenger became the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. (AP Photo/NASA)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, March 9, 2011 and provided by the US Geological Survey, Lava advances through forest within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Island of Hawaii. The latest eruption from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is decreasing in activity and has taken a breather from spewing out lava. (AP Photo/US Geological Survey)
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This image made from Japan's NHK public television via Kyodo News shows the Fukushima Daiichi power plant's Unit 1, left, in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011. The walls of the building at nuclear power station crumbled Saturday as smoke poured out and Japanese officials said they feared the reactor could melt down following the failure of its cooling system in a powerful earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/NHK TV via Kyodo News)
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A little child is held by rescue workers after being rescued from a building at Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, on Saturday March 12, 2011, one day after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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People walk around at Sendai port in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Saturday, March 12, 2011, following Friday's 8.9-magnitude quake and the tsunami it spawned hit the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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In these combo images made from Japan's NHK television, the Fukushima Daiichi power plant's Unit 1 is seen before (top) and after (bottom) an explosion in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011. The walls of the building at the nuclear power station crumbled Saturday as smoke poured out and Japanese officials said they feared the reactor could melt down following the failure of its cooling system in a powerful earthquake and tsunami. The damaged structure of Unit 1 can be seen at left after the walls crumbled. Japanese characters read: "before 9 a.m., top," and "at around 4:30 p.m."
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Houses are in flame while the Natori river is flooded over the surrounding area by tsunami tidal waves in Natori city, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, March 11, 2011, after strong earthquakes hit the area. (AP Photo/Yasushi Kanno, The Yomiuri Shimbun)
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Six rescue dogs will be traveling with the Fairfax County International Urban Search & Rescue team on their rescue mission in Japan. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Due to a tsunami warning, hundreds of cars line Kamehameha Highway leading into the town of Haleiwa as residents of the north shore community wait for the all clear to return home on Friday, March 11, 2011, in Honolulu. An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan and sent a tsunami wave across the Pacific. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)
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Waves of tsunami hit residences after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, Friday, March 11, 2011. The largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
