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The earthquake that hit Japan caused the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to shut down and the tsunami wiped out the cooling systems. As a result, the reactor is overheating and releasing dangerous amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. People living within 20 km of the plant have been evacuated. Extremely high levels of radiation have also been found in food grown in Japan.

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