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Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan is now facing a potential catastrophe after that a nuclear reactor in Fukushima - damaged by the earthquake last Friday - has exploded sending low levels of radiation to Tokyo, prompting some people to leave the capital and others to stockpile food.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has called on residents within 30 km from the plant nuclear north of Tokyo to stay at home and not wasting electricity, emphasizing the dramatic escalation of the nuclear crisis, the most serious in the world since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.
While concerns about the economic impact of the crisis grew, the Japanese stock market has lost 14% before the end of the session ending in fall of 9.5% compared to the 7.6% drop yesterday. .. read more
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