{"id":1819,"date":"2011-04-11T09:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2011-04-11T09:51:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:51:33","slug":"majority-of-japanese-say-handling-of-crisis-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/majority-of-japanese-say-handling-of-crisis-inadequate\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Japanese Say Handling of Crisis Inadequate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O<a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/naoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1820\" title=\"naoto\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/naoto-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/naoto-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/naoto-342x476.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/naoto-300x418.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/naoto.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>ne month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami battered the  northeast coast of Japan, more than 60 percent of voters polled say  Prime Minister Naoto Kan\u2019s handling of the resulting nuclear crisis has  been inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>A statement released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said the  tsunami was nearly 50 feet high at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant,  swamping the reactor buildings as well as the turbine housings. Power  has only recently been restored, and engineers are using emergency gear  to cool the reactors.<\/p>\n<p>The task of getting rid of 60,000 metric tons of contaminated water is  now a primary concern. Basements in the turbine buildings are flooded,  and water is nearly over the top of trenches surrounding the structures.  Plans call for transferring the water to condensers. Once that is  accomplished, work can begin on the main cooling systems.<\/p>\n<p>Damage estimates from the multiple disasters have risen to $295 billion. More than 27,000 people are dead or missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami battered the northeast coast of Japan, more than 60 percent of voters polled say Prime Minister Naoto Kan\u2019s handling of the resulting nuclear crisis has been inadequate&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[831,828,996],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-earthquake","tag-japan","tag-naoto-kan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}