Published March 12, 2011, 03:27 PM
For Battered Japan, a New Threat: Nuclear Meltdown
An explosion at a nuclear power plant on Japan's devastated coast destroyed a building Saturday and made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, the central threat menacing a nation just beginning to grasp the scale of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.By: Eric Talmadge, Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press
