43492950GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material U.S. radiation suits donated to Japanhttp://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/03/17/US-radiation-suits-donated-to-Japan/UPI-41811300395020/MIAMI, March 17 (UPI) -- A Florida company says it has donated 200 full-body nuclear radiation protection suits to aid power plant workers and rescue teams in Japan.Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:55:00 +0100upi-45e76100d67d1a93eeaf9f4701c5503a20110317225500Japan toll 15,000 dead or missinghttp://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/03/17/Japan-toll-15000-dead-or-missing/UPI-88701300394504/TOKYO, March 17 (UPI) -- Almost 6,000 deaths from the earthquake and tsunami have been confirmed and 9,500 people are listed as missing, Japanese police said Thursday.Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:55:00 +0100upi-8081763456fdaade1c5b126d2fa200fa20110317225500Cooling efforts suspended at nuclear planthttp://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/03/17/Cooling-efforts-suspended-at-nuclear-plant/UPI-10771300341277/TOKYO, March 17 (UPI) -- Efforts to cool down crippled Japanese nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were suspended Thursday because of high radiation levels, officials said.Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:55:00 +0100upi-bc92de572608b0b989583002377b7d9220110317225500Obama reassures: Japan's radiation won't reach UShttp://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2011-03-17-US-Japan/id-91ae0d6301b04bc1b5fe0568620817aaWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, trying to reassure a worried nation, declared Thursday that "harmful levels" of radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster are not expected to reach the U.S., even as other officials conceded it could take weeks to bring the crippled nuclear complex under control.Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:54:00 +0100AP-d8f2d15fb1c577b974ef8e2d520bd6a220110317225400