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Firefighters are tested for leaked radiation at a fire department at the village of Katsurao which is located within a 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius from the radiation-spewing Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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The Rakuten Golden Eagles, a professional team representing disaster-wracked Sendai in northeastern Japan, along with fans in the stands, observe a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before their baseball game against the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, when the 2011 pro baseball regular season opened in Japan. (Associated Press)
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Survivors of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami pray Tuesday at the site where their home once stood in Natori, Japan. The natural disasters badly damaged a nuclear power plant, which caused the nation Tuesday to raise its crisis level to 7, the highest rating. (Associated Press)
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Baseball fans observe a moment of silence for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before the start of a game between the Rakuten Golden Eagles, a Japanese professional team based in Sendai, northeastern Japan, and the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The 2011 pro baseball regular season kicked off on Tuesday in Japan. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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Players of the Rakuten Golden Eagles, a Japanese professional team based in Sendai, northeastern Japan, observe a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before their baseball game against the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The 2011 pro baseball regular season kicked off on Tuesday in Japan. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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In this March 11, 2011, photo released on Monday, April 11, 2011, by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), the access road at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is flooded as a tsunami hits the facility following a massive earthquake in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Evacuees observe a moment of silence Monday at 2:46 p.m., exactly one month after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. (Bloomberg)
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Buddhist monks pray at a tsunami-destroyed area in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Monday, April 11, 2011, one month to the day after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the city. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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A Japanese Buddhist monk prays at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Firemen walk as they head to search for missing people in an area devastated by the March 11 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Saturday, April 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Japanese people line up to buy food at a supermarket with no electricity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Friday, April 8, 2011. A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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** FILE ** In this March 20, 2011, aerial file photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE, the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. From top to bottom: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 4. (AP Photo/AIR PHOTO SERVICE, File)
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Guests at a hotel in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, stand outside the hostelry on Friday, April 8, 2011, following an magnitude-7.4 aftershock late Thursday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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A vessel still sits in a street of Kesennuma, Japan. The March 11 earthquake, tsunami and fires destroyed most of the fishing fleet, ports, and fishing industry along the northeastern coast of Japan. Now radiation has become an issue with seafood from the region. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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A worker (left) at a fish market reacts in an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake in northern Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Prefectural government's employees monitor amount of radiation on the ground of an elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Japan Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa, on board the USS Ronald Reagan on Monday, thanked the U.S. for its aid after the March 11 tsunami that ravaged Japan, telling the Reagan crew, "The entire Japanese people are deeply moved." (Associated Press)
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A woman (center) and others pray at her missing parents' house, which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan, on Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Leaking radioactive water drains through the crack of a maintenance pit (right) into the ocean near the Unit 2 reactor of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Japan. Highly radioactive water was leaking into the ocean Saturday from a crack discovered at the nuclear power plant. (Associated Press via Kyodo News)
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A man walks Sunday over debris in an area devastated by the March 11 tsunami to search for his house and belongings in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. (Associated Press)
