1952790 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 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/world/asia/02japan.html?partner=rss&emc=rssEnergy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday that roughly 70 percent of the core of one reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan had suffered severe damage.Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:18:00 +0200IHT-3b2aa8aef94b9d197bd957201552c51d20110401231800http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20049789-503543.htmlOne more survivor in Japan has been rescued. The Japanese coast guard on Friday rescued a dog floating in the debris off the coast of Kesennuma, northern Japan. It's unclear if the canine, which was scrambling on the roof of a house that had been washed away, had been at sea for the entire three weeks since the devastating earthquake and tsunami.Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:16:00 +0200CBSnews-ffe29383b0165756a11bcd54a4073f3720110401231600http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Japan+visit+nuclear+disaster+zone/4539536/story.htmlJapan's prime minister was headed on Saturday to the disaster zone where workers are braving radiation from a crippled nuclear plant to battle the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:59:00 +0200montrealgazette-f01925451b190d431682a66d1ff3cba120110401225900http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/04/01/japan-radiation-nuclear-plant-friday.html?ref=rssJapanese officials are reviewing suspiciously high radiation measurements around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, while the U.S. military has been called in to help with a final intensive search for bodies after the tsunami and earthquake.Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:52:00 +0200CBC-7af482aa880123d3bc72d9eedd656ce120110401225200