After notching a rare victory by stopping highly radioactive water from flowing into the Pacific, workers at Japan's snowed under nuclear power many-sided turned to their next task early Thursday: injecting nitrogen to prevent more hydrogen explosions.
Nuclear officials said Wednesday there was no immediate threat of explosions like the three that rock the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant not long after a massive tsunami hit on March 11, but their plans are a reminder of how much occupation remains to stabilize the complex. Workers are racing to cool downstairs the plant's reactors, which have been overheating since power was knocked out by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that killed as many as 25,000 people along with destroyed hundreds of miles of coastline.
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