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A man reacts while looking at a stock price board in Tokyo on Monday, March 14, 2011, as the Tokyo stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami of epic proportions laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. Only stock prices of construction and housing business showed upward trend (in red digits). (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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A female evacuee covers her face at a shelter in a temple on Monday, March 14, 2011, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Evacuees gather around the candlelight at a blacked-out shelter on Monday, March 14, 2011, in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Relatives react as they reunite at a shelter in Kesennuma in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture on Monday March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A man consoles a woman after she saw only the base of her house left in Noda village in northern Japan on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Yoichi Hayashi)
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An unidentified mother watches her baby, who was born on March 2 at a shelter in Iwaki, in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Houses and infrastructure devastated by a strong earthquake and tsunami are seen in Otsuchi, in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Japan Self-Defense Force members search for missing people before they use heavy machinery in Noda village in northern Japan on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Yoichi Hayashi)
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Japanese emergency crews work to free a body pinned among concrete sea barriers on Monday, March 14, 2011, in Toyoma, Japan, three days after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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A tsunami survivor sits down in the rubble in Yamadamachi in Japan's Iwate Prefecture on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Takashi Ozaki)
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A photo hangs from the remains of a house in the seaside town of Toyoma in northern Japan on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
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A woman crosses over a tsunami-hit railway track of the Japan Railway Ofunato line in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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A boat is carried by a tsunami surge on the harbor in Santa Cruz, Calif., Friday, March 11, 2011. A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Japan resulted in warnings as far away as the United States' west coast. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In this image made from Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, in northern Japan on Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked the stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan)
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"We can get American energy on line if we simply grant the permits," said Sen. Jon Kyl. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from Oct. 3, 2008, six reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant stand in line intact in Okumamachi in Fukushima Prefecture (state), northeastern Japan. Reactors, from bottom left, are: Unit 4, Unit 3, Unit 2, Unit 1, Unit 5 and Unit 6, top. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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A ferry is stranded atop a building in Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture on Sunday. The Japanese government doubled the number of troops pressed into rescue operations to about 100,000, following the worst-ever earthquake to hit Japan. (Yomiuri Shimbun via Associated Press)
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YOUNG VICTIM: A child evacuated from the area surrounding the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged in Friday's earthquake is checked for radiation exposure with other residents on Sunday in Koriyama city in Japan's Fukushima prefecture. (Associated Press)
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Attendants help a patient in a wheelchair as they evacuate a tsunami-affected hospital at Otsuchi, northeastern Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011, two days after a powerful 9.0-magnitude quake and a tsunami with 30-foot-high waves hit the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A woman searches through the rubble of her home in Ofunato in Iwate prefecture Sunday. Her house was destroyed in Friday's powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami. At least 1.4 million households were without water Sunday, and 2 million households had no electricity. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
