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Damaged reactor buildings at Dai Ichi Power Plant, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 16 March 2011, 9:35 a.m.: satellite image by DigitalGlobe
As Japan scrambled to prevent a nuclear meltdown, European energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger voiced surprise at the "incredible makeshift" means being used to stop the disaster at the Fukushima No.1 power plant.
"The site is effectively out of control," Oettinger told a European Parliament committee, a day after he said Japan was facing "apocalypse".
"In the coming hours there could be further catastrophic events which could pose a threat to the lives of people on the island," he said, warning that the situation was now "in the hands of God."
-- AFP News, 16 March 2011
Damaged reactor buildings at Dai Ichi Power Plant, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 16 March 2011, 9:35 a.m.: satellite image by DigitalGlobe