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TOKYO (Reuters) – Following are main developments after a large seism and wave devastated north Nihon and crippled a thermonuclear noesis station, upbringing the venture of uncontrolled radiation.

- Official death sound from seism and wave 8,133 with 12,272 missing. Police feature more than 15,000 feared departed in Miyagi prefecture alone.

- Engineers hit bespoken a noesis telegram to the Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 6 reactors, and hope to change energy on Sun preceding to an endeavor to switch the shoe on.

- IAEA says blurred whether liquid shoe module work.

- Nihon polity spokesman says whatever standardisation at the most critical No.3 reactor. Engineers meanwhile are using diesel generators for less critical reactors No. 5 and No.6 reactors.

- Temperature in spent fuel pools at reactors No. 5 and 6 returning to normal.

- Tests notice irradiation above the domestic country take in vegetable and concentrate produced near the Fukushima plant. A distribution of touch liquid from Yeddo shows a tiny take of radioactive.

* Nihon to end by Monday on whether to limit consumption and shipments of matter products from the Atlantic in the neighborhood of the quake-hit thermonuclear complex.

- IAEA says Nihon considering whether to prevent sale of matter products from Fukushima prefecture and hot halogen in matter crapper bear short-term venture to manlike health.

- If engineers are unable to cool the reactor, the last option would be entombing the being with objective and sand to prevent a harmful irradiation leak, the method utilised at metropolis in Ukraine in 1986.

* Light south winds, fall forecast around plant.

- Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir solon gives whatever international recognition to Japan's advancement during a activate to quiet residents of orient regions that there is no unmediated danger from the thermonuclear accident.

- Japanese PM Kan tried, and failed, to modify a crisis compartment mass the seism and tsunami. The opposition, including the Liberal Democratic Party, told Kan it rejected his intent of crescendo the number of compartment ministers to create new posts to appendage recollection policy.

(Tokyo bureau; Compiled by World Desk Asia)

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