water from its cripled nuclear plant-Fukushima Daiichi plant damaged by the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 earthquake, will be dumped into sea until Sunday, a daylater than previously planned, due to interupption in the work caused by the second aftershock on Thursday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) is struggling to contain the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl which engineers say could take months to stabilise them and years to clear up the toxic mess .
"Power blackouts and restrictions, factory shutdowns, and a sharp drop in tourists have hit the world's most indebted nation, which is facing a damages bill as high as $300 billion, making it by far the world's costliest natural disaster.
Economists expect Japan to slip into recession this year"
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