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Quake toll rises as Japan battles nuclear crisis Tweet Share this By Taiga Uranaka and Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan made some progress on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a nuclear power plant leaking radiation after an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000... Email Print Factbox Japan disaster in figures 1:31am EDT Related News Radioactive dust, particles found in greater Tokyo area Sat, Mar 19 2011 Light winds, rain forecast near Japan nuclear plant 1:23am EDT Japan firefighters spearhead hunt for dead and missing Sat, Mar 19 2011 Snapshot: Japan's nuclear crisis Sat, Mar 19 2011 Timeline: Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis Sat, Mar 19 2011 Analysis & Opinion The danger of spent-fuel rods and the Yucca Mountain project What happens to home values if you live near a nuclear reactor? Related Topics World » Japan » Natural Disasters » Nuclear Power » Stocks Related Video Tokyo businesses struggle after quake Sat, Mar 19 2011 Japan battles to cool nuclear reactors Work continues to cool nuclear plant 1 / 23 Tomoko Yagi holds fire extinguishers as she cleans her house among the ruins of the destroyed residential part of Kamaishi, more than a week after the town was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, March 20, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Lee Jae-Won By Taiga Uranaka and Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO | Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:33am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan made some progress on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a nuclear power plant leaking radiation after an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000 people in one prefecture alone. Three hundred engineers have been battling inside the danger zone to salvage the six-reactor Fukushima plant in the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl 25 years ago. "I think the situation is improving step by step," Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tetsuro Fukuyama told a news conference. Police said they believed more than 15,000 people had been killed by the double disaster in Miyagi prefecture, one of four that took the brunt of the tsunami damage. In total, more than 20,000 are dead or missing, police said. The unprecedented crisis will cost the world's third largest economy as much as $248 billion and require Japan's biggest reconstruction push since post-World War Two. It has also set back nuclear power plans the world over. Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano put the economic damage at above 20 trillion yen ($248 billion), which was his estimate of the total economic impact of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe. Yosano said government spending was likely to exceed the 3.3 trillion yen Tokyo spent after Kobe, which up to now has been considered the world's costliest natural disaster. Markets will be closed on Monday for a public holiday. Encouragingly for Japanese transfixed on work at the Fukushima complex, the most critical reactor -- No. 3, which contains highly toxic plutonium -- stabilized after fire trucks doused it for hours with hundreds of tonnes of water. "We believe the water is having a cooling effect," an official of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said. Work also advanced on bringing power back to water pumps used to cool overheating nuclear fuel, and temperatures at spent fuel pools in reactors No. 5 and 6 were returning to normal. Technicians attached a power cable to Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 6 reactors, hoping to restore electricity later in the day prior to an attempt to switch the pumps on. They aim to reach No. 4 on Monday or Tuesday. DRASTIC MEASURES 1 2 3 Next World Japan Natural Disasters Nuclear Power Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (1) meenas17 wrote: Nuke crisis is handled well by the operators. it is definitely a terrific disaster. No one is held responsible except Nature , which has broken the land into pieces in a few minutes. Building skyscrapers oppress the land. Setting up artificial energy production units is catastrophic. Resorting to inorganic metabolism is crucial. Consuming fast foods is risky. Get rid of all these illicit quotas. Surely ,you will find a better place to live. Nature will get appeased. 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