shifted the seabed near theepicentre in northern Japan by a record 24 metres (79 feet).
- TEPCO this week began paying "condolence money" to nearbylocal governments to aid people evacuated because of the crisis.
- Authorities do not plan to expand the evacuation zonearound the plant, a senior nuclear official said. The governmentcreated a 20-km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the site afterthe earthquake and tsunami.
- TEPCO has said it will scrap at least four reactors oncethey are under control, but this could take years or evendecades. The Fukushima Daiichi and nearby Fukushima Daini plantsproduce 4 percent of Japan's power and local politicians sayreopening them will be politically difficult.
- A total of 12,554 people were confirmed dead by Japan'sNational Police Agency, while 15,077 are missing as ofWednesday. A total of 162,481 households were withoutelectricity and at least 170,000without running water.
- Estimated cost of damage to top $300 billion
christian louboutin big kiss flats , making itthe world's costliest natural disaster. The 1995 Kobe quake cost$100 billion while Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused $81 billionin damage. (Tokyo bureau; Compiled by World Desk Asia)
TOKYO, April 1 - Following are main developmentsafter a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastJapan and crippled a nuclear power station, raising the risk ofan uncontrolled radiation leak.
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- Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said theevacuation of residents near the country's stricken nuclearplant will be a "long-term" operation.
* Cabinet Secretary Edano has stopped wearing an emergencyjacket, which he said shows the government "is stepping into thenext stage towards restoration and reconstruction."
* The United States and Germany are sending robots to helprepair and explore the damaged plant. Kyodo said some 140 U.S.military radiation safety experts would soon visit to offertechnical help.
- Japan will take control of Tokyo Electric Power Co , the operator of the plant
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- Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the country needed to debateits energy policy based on studies of the Fukushima plantdisaster, as anger grows at the ongoing crisis.
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy
christian louboutin big kiss flats , the first foreign leaderin Japan since the tsunami, said on Thursday that the worldshould aim to set out new nuclear industry standards by the endof the year disaster.
- Radiation in water at underground tunnel near reactor10
christian louboutin big kiss flats ,000 times above normal. Abnormal level of radioactive caesiumfound in beef from the area
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- UN watchdog suggests widening of the exclusion zone aroundFukushima nuclear power station after radiation measured at avillage 40 km from the facility exceeded a criterion forevacuation.
- Japan's government may need to spend over 10 trillion yen($120 billion) in emergenc