Japan Floods Nuclear Reactor Crippled by Quake in Effort to Avert Meltdown - nytimes

TOKYO — Japanese officials took the extraordinary step on Saturday of flooding a crippled nuclear reactor with seawater in a last-ditch effort to avoid a nuclear meltdown, -- Japan Floods Reactor Crippled by Quake in Effort to Avert Meltdown
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