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Highly radioactive water leaks through a crack in a maintenance pit (right) into the sea near the Unit 2 reactor of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, in a photo released by the Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the facility, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News)

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Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force conduct a search operation for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Norimitsu Masuda)

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Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer holds a necklace made of ocean flotsam as he talks about how debris from Japan will wash ashore in Washington, as he sits at a Puget Sound beach Wednesday, March 30, 2011, in Seattle. Ebbesmeyer, who has traced Nike sneakers, rubber bath toys and hockey gloves spilled from Asian shipping containers over the decades, expects the first items of flotsam from Japan's tsunamis and earthquake to hit West Coast beaches in a year. He says derelict fishing vessels may show up first, while other items like pieces from wooden homes and rubber survey stakes may take two to three years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, center, walks past the rubble in front of municipal building Saturday, April 2, 2011, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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In this Friday, April 1, 2011, photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., workers for the company experimentally spray adhesive synthetic resin over the ground at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan. TEPCO expects the resin spraying to prevent dust exposed to radiation materials from spreading out of the premises. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Japan-based Hong Kong singer Agnes Chan performs during the charity concert "Artistes 311 Love Beyond Borders" in Hong Kong Friday, April 1, 2011. Hong Kong entertainment industry staged the concert to raise funds for victims of Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speak about nuclear power safety after their meeting in Tokyo on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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A replica of the 4.5-ton atomic bomb Fat Man is at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, western Japan. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this March 28, 2011 file photo, new vehicles damaged by the March 11 tsunami waters sit lined in a Toyota parking lot at Sendai port, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A shortage of auto parts and other components after Japan's earthquake has stirred unease about two pillars of manufacturing: the country's role as a crucial link in the global supply chain and "just in time" production. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

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The aftermath of Japan's devastation is on display at a Suzuki company lot, where ravaged vehicles are lined up. The nation has signaled it will finance the recovery by issuing bonds. (Associated Press)

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Ai Miyazato of Japan, watches a practice putt on the 10th hole during the pro-am round of the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Wednesday, March 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Residents search for anything worth keeping Wednesday in the earthquake- and tsunami-devastated town of Kesennuma in northern Japan. (Associated Press)

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'THIS NIGHTMARE': Nearly three weeks of desperation and depravation after have given some of the earthquake and tsunami survivors the courage to visit Kesennuma, Japan. Just a month ago, the town was home to 70,000 people including fishermen, teachers, mechanics and clothing makers. (Associated Press)

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Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Takashi Saito, from Japan, walks onto the field for a light workout in the snow, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 in Cincinnati. The Brewers open their 2011 major league baseball season Thursday against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati.(AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Japanese Emperor Akihito (left) and Empress Michiko speak with evacuees at a center in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 30, 2011. The royal couple visited the shelter to give encouragement to some 300 evacuees from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, mostly from Fukushima Prefecture, where the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located. (AP Photo/Issei Kato, Pool)

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A resident of Japan's Oshima island pushes a wheelbarrow past the destroyed port as he tries to salvage belongings from his home on Monday, March 28, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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**FILE** Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, wearing one of the blue work jackets that have become ubiquitous among bureaucrats since the tsunami, reacts during a budget committee meeting in parliament's upper house in Tokyo on March 29, 2011. (Associated Press)