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Japan needs to act quickly and ban sales of food with high radiation levels from areas near damaged nuclear plant, health agency says

Helicopters and fire trucks proved unsuccessful at replenishing damaged nuclear fuel pools at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant on Thursday. The spent-fuel pools contain a large amount of radioactive material that is not contained as well as that in the reactor cores. And although information has been spotty, nuclear experts worry that this fuel--which should be submerged in circulating water to keep it from overheating--has been at least partly exposed in the pools belonging to reactors Nos.

* Temporary shortages of water and food * Evacuation of area near damaged nuclear reactors [More]