Japanese choppers dump water on stricken reactor

Military helicopters deserted loads of seawater onto Japan's suffering nuclear multifaceted Thursday, rotating to combat-style plans while trying to cool excited uranium fuel that may be on the border of spew out more emission.

Place operators also said they were race to finish a new power line that could restore cooling systems and ease the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi place on the country's northeast coast.

The top U.S. nuclear narrow spokesperson gave a far bleaker assessment of the location than the Japanese, and the U.S. diplomat said the condition was "deteriorating" while counsel U.S. citizens within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of the multifarious to leave the region or at least hang about indoors.

The Japanese government said it had no plans to get bigger its mandatory, 12-mile (20-kilometer) exclusion zone approximately the plant, while also influence people within 20 miles (30 kilometers) to stay inside.

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Obama turns to Russian diplomacy as Asia trip ends

President Barack Obama, cap a far-flung trip of varied results, said Saturday the United States is "here to stay" as a power in Asia and pivot to Russian international relations as a nuclear treaty hung in the balance.

In his concluding hours in Japan, Obama was meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as the White House knotted to surrounding up votes for ratification of a nuclear arms pact that the two leaders signed in April. The administration was contribution to add billions of dollars for modernizing the U.S. nuclear weapon store to woo Republican support.

Obama was final an Asia trip so extensive — from the growing democracies of India and Indonesia to the summit-hosting associates of South Korea and Japan — that Air Force One was head all the way approximately the globe.

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