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Medical workers in protective gear gather around an ambulance which arrived at a hospital in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, carrying two workers from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after they stepped into contaminated water while laying electrical cables in one unit Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Jun Yasukawa) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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A resident walks between the rubble caused by the March 11 tsunami at Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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A woman is screened Monday at an evacuee center for radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear facilities in northeastern Japan. Despite living in close proximity to six nuclear reactors, evacuees at this shelter never practiced an emergency drill to prepare them for a disaster. (Associated Press)
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An elderly Japanese woman searches for her belongings Monday in the quake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Rikuzentakata in northeastern Japan. (Associated Press)
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Chiyoko Kaizuka, 83-year old farmer, weeds a spinach field Sunday, March 20, 2011 in Moriya, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan. Japan announced the first signs that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex has seeped into the food chain, saying that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the facility exceeded government safety limits. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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FILE - In this Saturday, March 12, 2011 file photo, a runway at Sendai airport is covered with washed out cars and sand and earth after the March 11 strong earthquake slammed into Japan's eastern coast. Geologists say a powerful earthquake could strike near Tokyo because the recent monster that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, loading stress onto a segment of the fault line near the capital. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
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FILE - In this video image taken March 11, 2011 from Japan's NHK TV, a wave from the tsunami heads to the coast in Miyagi Prefecture on the north east coast of Japan following a massive earth quake. (AP PHOTO/NHK TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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Two women, using golf clubs as walking sticks, scavenge for their belongings near a wrecked apartment block in the destroyed town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on Sunday, March 20, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan speaks to the media about the nuclear emergency triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan before his takeoff to Japan at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Residents observes a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a shelter in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, at 2:46 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2011, at the time when a strong earthquake hit northeastern Japan one week ago. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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DANGER: Thick smoke billows from the No. 3 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. A nearly completed new power line could restore cooling systems to the tsunami-damaged structure, its operator said Thursday. (Associated Press)
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President Obama signs the condolence book as Ichiro Fujisaki, the Japanese ambassador to the U.S., looks on during his visit to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Thursday. Mr. Obama placed a telephone call to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday to discuss Japan's efforts to recover from last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant. (Associated Press)
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A Japan Self-Defense Forces helicopter scoops sea water off Japan's northeast coast on its way to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Japan, on Thursday morning, March 17, 2011. Helicopters dumped water on a stricken reactor at the plant in the country's northeast to cool overheated fuel rods inside the core. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Kenji Shimizu)
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Sailors move food and water onto an HH-60H Sea Hawk on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on Tuesday off the coastline of Japan in the western Pacific Ocean. (Associated Press via U.S. Navy)
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HOMELESS: A woman walks around the devastated area in snowy and cold Ofunato in northern Japan where her home used to be before the earthquake and tsunami on Wednesday. Emperor Akihito appeared on TV across Japan in a prerecorded message that lasted about six minutes. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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This satellite photo taken on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, and provided by DigitalGlobe shows the damage to the reactor buildings of Units 1, 3 and 4 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeast Japan. Steam can be seen venting from the Unit 2 reactor building, as well as from the Unit 3 reactor building. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)
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Japan Self-Defense Force members search for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami Tuesday in the devastated city of Ofunato, Japan. (Associated Press)
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan discusses the disaster at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday. Mr. Kan said the risks of further radiation leaks are increasing after an explosion at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima. (Bloomberg)
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This satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility in northeastern Japan on Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)
