Chain reaction halted, gov't commission says

Chain reaction halted, gov't commission says

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Tatsuya Murakami (C), village mayor of Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, also chairman of the disaster management headquarters dealing with Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident, talks to reporters at Tokaimura village office on Oct. 1. Murakami conveyed an Nuclear Safety Commission announcement that the nuclear chain reaction had been stopped as a result of removal of water coolant from pipes at the uranium processing plant where the accident took place.

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