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Japan says Fukushima plant to be scrapped

Japan said on Thursday its stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will have to be scrapped, while pressure also grew for the evacuation zone around the crippled facility to be expanded.
With no end in sight to the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years, the US ordered a Marine emergency response unit to Japan, and French nuclear group Areva said it was likely to step up assistance to the plant's operator.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the facility at the centre of the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be decommissioned, Kyodo news reported.
Officials have previously hinted the plant would be retired once the situation there is stabilised, given the severe damage it has sustained including likely partial meltdowns and a series of hydrogen blasts.
However, there were no plans to widen a 20-kilometre (12-mile) exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant despite the UN atomic watchdog saying radiation in one village 40 kilometres away had reached evacuation levels. Analysis: Nuclear accident exposes TEPCO
Japan's top government spokesman Yukio Edano, asked whether further evacuations should be ordered, told a press conference: "I don't think that this is something of a nature which immediately requires such action.
"But... we will continue monitoring the level of radiation with heightened vigilance and we intend to take action if necessary."

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