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Cunard 's Queen Mary 2 has passed its vessel sanitation re-test, some six weeks after suffering a failing score when inspectors found a human hair in the ice machine, dirty water in the pools and chemicals stored near napkins.

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.