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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Dean Still had been researching and developing cleaner, more environmentally-friendly wood-burning stoves for almost two decades when, while working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he spotted a coal stove for sale on a street corner near Tibet, China.

Workers at Shengzhou Stove Manufacturers prepare wood-burning stoves for firing.

He had been looking for an established manufacturer who could mass-produce the more efficient, lower-emission stoves he had been developing with the Aprovecho Research Center (ARC), a non-profit research and education center based in Oregon in the United States.

"It looked perfect. It had all the components," Still told CNN. "I knew we could change it to a wood-burning stove. There was a cell phone number on the side, so I called it."

Shen Huiyang of Shengzhou Stove Manufacturers (SSM), based over a thousand miles away, answered. The two met and a short time later, in August 2007, an agreement was signed between ARC and SSM. Shen's factory began producing the new wood-burning stoves last year.

Last week, the two companies were declared "Global Energy Champions" by the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy at a ceremony in London, England.

The vast majority of the 60,000 stoves they've sold since entering their partnership have gone to Envirofit International, a U.S.-based non-profit organization which markets the stoves in India, supported by the Shell Foundation. Others are sold in Argentina, Chile, the Marshall Islands, Madagascar, South Africa and Tanzania.

Shen said: "We have produced coal stoves for many years, and it is wonderful to be able to use our experience to make a wood stove that brings benefits to so many people."

The pair won $65,000 to develop the scheme which Still says will be spent on research and development, and to employ more sales people.

"What I'm doing now is talking to the U.N., to relief agencies, just anybody in the world who might have an interest in burning wood more cleanly, and using less of it," he said.

The principle behind the stove is simple. With a better insulated combustion chamber, the fire requires less wood and burns hot enough for the smoke to combust as well, which means far fewer emissions.

According to the World Health Organization, about half the world still cooks with biomass or coal, using open fires or traditional stoves. The resulting emissions cause indoor air pollution, leading to pneumonia, chronic respiratory disease and lung cancer. This indoor air pollution causes 1.6 million deaths a year, primarily among children and women.

The emissions also contribute to climate change, and the collection of firewood contributes to deforestation and erosion.

ARC say tests performed on the stoves indicate major breakthroughs for both the environment and health in the developing world. The stoves reduce the use of wood for fuel by up to 50 percent, and cut carbon monoxide emissions by up to 70 percent compared to a traditional fire.

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(CNN) -- NASA has postponed for one day the scheduled launch of a rocket carrying a solar probe.

The space agency plans to launch an Atlas V rocket carrying its Solar Dynamics Observatory, which it says will study the sun "in greater detail than ever before."

After delaying the launch three times because of windy conditions Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA said it will try again Thursday, with a launch window of 10:23 a.m. to 11:23 a.m. ET.

"The vehicle's flight control system sensed wind loads exceeding the limit, prompting the abrupt end to the countdown," NASA said.

The agency says the observatory will provide a better understanding of the sun and its role in space weather events such as solar flares, which can wreak havoc on Earth.

The observatory is designed to deliver solar images with resolution 10 times better than high-definition television, according to NASA.

The five-year mission "will determine how the sun's magnetic field is generated, structured and converted into violent solar events like turbulent solar wind, solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections," according to the agency.

The solar wind, a stream of electrically charged particles flowing out from the sun, fills the entire solar system with charged particles and magnetic fields, according to NASA.

Solar flares are actual explosions in the sun's atmosphere, the largest of them equal to billions of one-megaton nuclear bombs. And Coronal Mass Ejections, or CMEs, are eruptions that launch solar material into space at a high rate of speed.

Such events can put astronauts at risk, as well as aircraft flying over Earth's North or South Poles, and can also disrupt satellite communications, navigational systems and power grids, NASA said. In 1969, for instance, a solar current knocked a power grid serving Quebec, Canada, off-line for nine hours. "That's a direct impact on life and society," said Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division. He is in charge of Wednesday's launch.

In addition, changes in magnetic energy such as those around sunspots can change Global Positioning System signals, making them less accurate

"If you're landing a great big jet airliner in a low-visibility situation and you have one of these events that causes a misinterpretation of location by 150 to 200 yards, that's big stuff when you're trying to hit a runway with these instruments," Fisher said.

There's no way to predict space weather. Officials hope the Solar Dynamics Observatory can provide information to help change that.

"This is the most advanced spacecraft we've ever designed to study the sun and its dynamic behavior," Fisher said. The sun, he said, "has this trick of converting magnetic energy into other kinds of energy that can affect the Earth."

"I believe we're up to the point now where we can probably predict when something like this is more or less likely and you can at least take precautions," Fisher said about solar weather. A warning system, for example, could help power grid operators avoid an outage by taking some of the grid's load off or finding alternative configurations.

The sun's effect wasn't an issue for the Earth until the technological advances in electronics over the last hundred years, he said.

The observatory is "going to give us good awareness of the dynamics of the sun, and we're going to be able to make estimates on when we should take precautions with our satellites or with airline operations or with Department of Defense systems," Fisher said. "We have an increasing pressure on science to try and predict what's going to happen on the sun, and that's the scientific bent of this (SDO) satellite, is to try to get a handle on it."

The observatory contains three major instruments that scientists believe will send data back to Earth for at least five years. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly will allow scientists to see the sun in high resolution.

The imaging assembly will also observe the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, and the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment will measure its ultraviolet spectrum every 10 seconds.

"Space weather forecasting is in its infancy ... just like hurricane forecasting was years ago," according to an article on NASA's Web site by Liz Citrin, SDO project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, which developed and will manage the mission. "We built up experience in collecting data, designed models, tested those models and now look what we can do."

The observatory will snap an image of the sun in eight wavelengths every 10 seconds, NASA said. It will remain in continuous contact with a station at the White Sands Complex in southern New Mexico.

"The biggest challenge of this mission was the data rate," Citrin wrote in the article. "SDO will blast back 1.5 terabytes of information every day. ... That's equivalent to a half-million song downloads. It's unprecedented."

The observatory is the first mission of NASA's Living With a Star program. The program is aimed at increasing understanding of the sun in order to address its effect on Earth.

The mission was supposed to launch in August 2008, but scientists decided more testing was needed.

CNN Radio's Shelby Erdman contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- The relatives of a woman who died on the floor of a New York hospital say they plan to file a $25 million lawsuit against the city and the facility where Esmin Green died.

Esmin Green's daughter, Tecia Harrison, says disciplinary action against hospital workers is not enough for her.

Green's family is also calling for criminal charges against hospital workers, who they say failed to help her and then attempted to cover up the circumstances of her death.

"My sister was killed twice," said Brenda James, Green's sister. "First, by those who neglected to offer her the needed health care. Secondly, she was killed by those who tried to cover up this criminal action."

The family has retained a lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, to file the suit.

Green, a Jamaican immigrant, had been involuntarily admitted to the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on June 18 for what the hospital described as "agitation and psychosis."

Surveillance camera footage captured the mother of six sliding off of a chair and onto the floor of waiting room of the hospital's psychiatric emergency department, where she lay convulsing for more than a hour before anyone helped her.

The footage appears to capture several employees passing by her as she lay on the floor struggling.

The New York Civil Liberties Union said last week that the hospital falsified medical records for the timeframe covering Green's visit, describing her as awake and going to the bathroom when she is seen on the video.  Watch Green's family after seeing video Â»

Seven workers, including doctors, nurses and security guards, have been fired or suspended since Green's death, the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation said. It's not clear whether any of the employees have appealed the disciplinary actions against them.

The agency said it referred the matter to law enforcement and is cooperating with the investigation.

"We failed Esmin Green and believe her family deserves fair and just compensation," it said in a statement.

Autopsy results have not been released.

Green's daughter, who reluctantly watched the footage for the first time this week, says disciplinary action doesn't make up for her family's loss.

"Firing is not enough for me, for my brothers. They don't know this wonderful woman they took away from us," said Tecia Harrison, who traveled to New York from Jamaica to attend her mother's funeral Sunday.

"We want them to pay for it," she said.

CNN's Mary Snow contributed to this report

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United Nations (CNN) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will address the U.N. General Assembly in July, the British Mission to the United Nations announced Friday.

Queen Elizabeth last addressed the General Assembly in 1957, it said.

The queen's July 6 speech will come at the conclusion of a nine-day trip to Canada with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.

She will address the United Nations in her capacity as head of state of 16 U.N. member states, the mission said in a news release.

Queen Elizabeth is head of state for the United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Thousands of people were pushing for rescue efforts in Haiti to continue Sunday, after a 24-year-old man was pulled alive from the ruins on Saturday, 11 days after the nation's devastating earthquake.

The Haitian government says it will be switching from a search and rescue operation to a search and recovery mission.

But families of Americans who were staying at the leveled Hotel Montana are fighting that, and started an online petition Saturday in an effort to continue search efforts there "until all the survivors are accounted for." As of Sunday morning, 2,395 people had signed the petition and sent 6,216 messages to the Senate, Congress and the White House, said Sue Keller, a friend of a family whose relatives are among the missing. The families hope to have at least 5,000 signatures by Monday, she said.

The Haitian government has said more than 111,000 people died in the January 12 quake, which registered 7.0 in magnitude. But on Saturday, a French rescue team was able to save one life as they pulled Wismond Jean-Pierre from the rubble of the Hotel Napoli Inn in Port-au-Prince.

According to his brother, Jean-Pierre worked in the hotel's grocery store and survived his week and a half in the rubble by consuming cookies and beer. Dehydrated but apparently without injury, Jean-Pierre was even talkative as he was placed in an ambulance and driven to a hospital.

Lt. Col. Christophe Renou, a French rescuer briefly overcome with emotion, called the three-hour effort "a miracle." Other members of the team -- assisted by American and Greek workers -- were seen weeping after Jean-Pierre was freed.

Rescues like Jean-Pierre's, and others that have happened in the week following the disaster, sparked hope among families of the missing. But the emotional rescue came on a day when much of Haiti was mourning as operations largely shifted from rescue to recovery, and the country's president attended the funeral of an archbishop who was one of the victims.

A Mexican rescue team had pulled the body of 63-year-old Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot from ruins near the national cathedral, which he oversaw as archbishop of Port-au-Prince. The cathedral was destroyed.

At the funeral, President RenÃ© PrÃ©val was asked to respond to criticism that he has not shown strong public leadership and has been largely unseen in the aftermath. "This is not about politics today," he said.

CNN iReport:  Looking for loved ones in Haiti

The most recent death toll is the worst caused by an earthquake since the 2004 Asian tsunami that resulted from a temblor, and the second-highest death toll from an earthquake in more than three decades, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

"Rescue teams continue to work in Port-au-Prince, we continue to hope that they will be able to find people still alive, but as time passes, we must gradually shift our resources from rescue to recovery," Nick Birnback, spokesman for U.N. peacekeeping operations, said Saturday.

International search teams have rescued at least 132 people since the quake struck, the U.N. said.

Birnback said the priority now is to remove bodies and clean up affected areas to avoid health hazards and the spread of disease. He said the United Nations will start bringing in heavier equipment, which will allow teams to move concrete and damaged homes.

More than 600,000 people have also been left homeless in and around the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

Interactive map of where to find aid, hospitals in Haiti

Meanwhile, up to 140 flights a day are regularly arriving at the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport, compared with 25 in the immediate aftermath of the January 12 quake, OCHA said Saturday. To relieve congestion at the airport, humanitarian cargo is being moved to a forward dispatch area at one end of the runway.

The Las Americas airport in Santo Domingo, in neighboring Dominican Republic, is starting to report congestion as it becomes increasingly used as an alternative airport, OCHA said. It will now be open overnight to accommodate the extra traffic.

Those managing the land transport of supplies from Santo Domingo will need fuel, and OCHA said there is enough in Haiti to last an additional 18 to 19 days. But it said it expects no shortage of fuel because supplies of fuel will be able to enter the port during that time.

One concern with cross-border traffic is the unauthorized departure of Haitian children, OCHA said.

Charities and aid groups have said in recent days that they are concerned about the danger of child trafficking after the earthquake. Groups including Save the Children and World Vision have called for a halt to adoptions, saying many children may appear to be orphaned but have simply been separated from their families.

"If children must be evacuated from Haiti because their protection needs cannot be met in country, the evacuation must be carefully documented, the children must be registered with the proper authorities and all efforts must be made to reunify them with family before any adoption proceedings are considered," the U.S.-based Women's Refugee Commission said.

The number of unaccompanied children needing support is greater than the capacity to respond, OCHA said. Authorities are working with unaccompanied children who are being released from hospitals, it said.

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text: Looking

text: for

text: loved

text: ones

text: in

text: Haiti

text: The

text: most

text: recent

text: death

text: toll

text: is

text: the

text: worst

text: caused

text: by

text: an

text: earthquake

text: since

text: the

text: Asian

text: tsunami

text: that

text: resulted

text: from

text: a

text: temblor

text: and

text: the

text: second

text: highest

text: death

text: toll

text: from

text: an

text: earthquake

text: in

text: more

text: than

text: three

text: decades

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Geological

text: Survey

text: Rescue

text: teams

text: continue

text: to

text: work

text: in

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: we

text: continue

text: to

text: hope

text: that

text: they

text: will

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: find

text: people

text: still

text: alive

text: but

text: as

text: time

text: passes

text: we

text: must

text: gradually

text: shift

text: our

text: resources

text: from

text: rescue

text: to

text: recovery

text: Nick

text: Birnback

text: spokesman

text: for

text: U.N.

text: peacekeeping

text: operations

text: said

text: Saturday

text: International

text: search

text: teams

text: have

text: rescued

text: at

text: least

text: people

text: since

text: the

text: quake

text: struck

text: the

text: U.N.

text: said

text: Birnback

text: said

text: the

text: priority

text: now

text: is

text: to

text: remove

text: bodies

text: and

text: clean

text: up

text: affected

text: areas

text: to

text: avoid

text: health

text: hazards

text: and

text: the

text: spread

text: of

text: disease

text: He

text: said

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: will

text: start

text: bringing

text: in

text: heavier

text: equipment

text: which

text: will

text: allow

text: teams

text: to

text: move

text: concrete

text: and

text: damaged

text: homes

text: More

text: than

text: people

text: have

text: also

text: been

text: left

text: homeless

text: in

text: and

text: around

text: the

text: capital

text: of

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: the

text: U.N.

text: Office

text: for

text: the

text: Coordination

text: of

text: Humanitarian

text: Affairs

text: said

text: Interactive

text: map

text: of

text: where

text: to

text: find

text: aid

text: hospitals

text: in

text: Haiti

text: Meanwhile

text: up

text: to

text: flights

text: a

text: day

text: are

text: regularly

text: arriving

text: at

text: the

text: single

text: runway

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: airport

text: compared

text: with

text: in

text: the

text: immediate

text: aftermath

text: of

text: the

text: January

text: quake

text: OCHA

text: said

text: Saturday

text: To

text: relieve

text: congestion

text: at

text: the

text: airport

text: humanitarian

text: cargo

text: is

text: being

text: moved

text: to

text: a

text: forward

text: dispatch

text: area

text: at

text: one

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: runway

text: The

text: Las

text: Americas

text: airport

text: in

text: Santo

text: Domingo

text: in

text: neighboring

text: Dominican

text: Republic

text: is

text: starting

text: to

text: report

text: congestion

text: as

text: it

text: becomes

text: increasingly

text: used

text: as

text: an

text: alternative

text: airport

text: OCHA

text: said

text: It

text: will

text: now

text: be

text: open

text: overnight

text: to

text: accommodate

text: the

text: extra

text: traffic

text: Those

text: managing

text: the

text: land

text: transport

text: of

text: supplies

text: from

text: Santo

text: Domingo

text: will

text: need

text: fuel

text: and

text: OCHA

text: said

text: there

text: is

text: enough

text: in

text: Haiti

text: to

text: last

text: an

text: additional

text: to

text: days

text: But

text: it

text: said

text: it

text: expects

text: no

text: shortage

text: of

text: fuel

text: because

text: supplies

text: of

text: fuel

text: will

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: enter

text: the

text: port

text: during

text: that

text: time

text: One

text: concern

text: with

text: cross

text: border

text: traffic

text: is

text: the

text: unauthorized

text: departure

text: of

text: Haitian

text: children

text: OCHA

text: said

text: Charities

text: and

text: aid

text: groups

text: have

text: said

text: in

text: recent

text: days

text: that

text: they

text: are

text: concerned

text: about

text: the

text: danger

text: of

text: child

text: trafficking

text: after

text: the

text: earthquake

text: Groups

text: including

text: Save

text: the

text: Children

text: and

text: World

text: Vision

text: have

text: called

text: for

text: a

text: halt

text: to

text: adoptions

text: saying

text: many

text: children

text: may

text: appear

text: to

text: be

text: orphaned

text: but

text: have

text: simply

text: been

text: separated

text: from

text: their

text: families

text: If

text: children

text: must

text: be

text: evacuated

text: from

text: Haiti

text: because

text: their

text: protection

text: needs

text: can

text: not

text: be

text: met

text: in

text: country

text: the

text: evacuation

text: must

text: be

text: carefully

text: documented

text: the

text: children

text: must

text: be

text: registered

text: with

text: the

text: proper

text: authorities

text: and

text: all

text: efforts

text: must

text: be

text: made

text: to

text: reunify

text: them

text: with

text: family

text: before

text: any

text: adoption

text: proceedings

text: are

text: considered

text: the

text: U.S

text: based

text: Women

text: 's

text: Refugee

text: Commission

text: said

text: The

text: number

text: of

text: unaccompanied

text: children

text: needing

text: support

text: is

text: greater

text: than

text: the

text: capacity

text: to

text: respond

text: OCHA

text: said

text: Authorities

text: are

text: working

text: with

text: unaccompanied

text: children

text: who

text: are

text: being

text: released

text: from

text: hospitals

text: it

text: said

question: how many have died

answer: more than 111,000 people

text: more than 111,000 people

question: On what date did the quake happen?

answer: January 12

text: January 12

question: How many have died since the quake?

answer: more than 111,000 people

text: more than 111,000 people

question: what are families protesting

answer: The Haitian government says it will be switching from a search and rescue operation to a search and recovery mission.

text: The Haitian government says it will be switching from a search and rescue operation to a search and recovery mission.

question: How many have died since January 12?

answer: 111,000 people

text: 111,000 people

question: How many days after the quake was the 24-year-old survivor pulled from the hotel?

answer: 11

question: Who was pulled from the hotel ruins?

answer: a 24-year-old man

text: a 24-year-old man

question: What are famillies protesting?

answer: switching from a search and rescue operation to a search and recovery mission.

text: switching from a search and rescue operation to a search and recovery mission.

question: who is protesting

answer: families of Americans

text: families of Americans


text:
Tokyo (CNN) -- Journalists got their first ground-level glance Saturday around Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility -- eying shells of reactor buildings, tons of contaminated water and workers scurrying still to mitigate damage from a crisis that began eight months ago.

An epic 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami March 11 wreaked havoc around Japan, killing more than 15,000 people. While many of those died instantly, the East Asian nation was on edge for weeks as utility and government employees scrambled to prevent a worsening nuclear catastrophe at the Daiichi plant, located about 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of Tokyo.

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency eventually categorized the accident as a level-7 event on the international scale for nuclear disasters -- the highest level -- putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

It took months, but the Tokyo Electric Power Company (the plant's operator) eventually indicated that its workers were gaining control in the crisis. Throughout the summer and fall, there were no longer reports of explosions, nor stories about new leaks of radioactive material into the ground and sea.

But the facility still remained off-limits to reporters and, for a 20-kilometer radius around the plant, to the general public due to the continued high levels of radiation and ongoing efforts to prevent yet more blasts and leaks.

That temporarily changed Saturday, when about three dozen journalists traveled by bus through abandoned towns en route to the nuclear facility. They passed, for instance, withered plants at an abandoned nursery, a shattered car dealership and a gas station that had been taken over by crows.

Radiation readings rose steadily as they neared the plant, including 6.7 microsieverts in Okuma. There, those on board put on respirator masks, adding to an ensemble of a protective suit, two pairs of gloves, two sets of plastic booties over their shoes and a radiation detector.

At the plant's gate, the radiation reading was 20 microsieverts. The reading is still well below the threshold to mandate an immediate health risk -- 1,000 microsieverts equals 1 millisievert, and South Carolina-based medical physicist G. Donald Frey previously told CNN that radiation workers in the U.S. typically aim to be exposed to less than 5 millisieverts per year. Yet it was the cumulative effect that has prompted the continued evacuations of thousands around the Fukushima Daiichi facility.

A half-dozen large cranes dominated the skyline inside the gates, while the grounds were pockmarked with vessels containing what the Tokyo Electric Power Company has said is 90,000 tons of water laced with radiation. They were visible in tanks that filled a field, as well as dozens of large, four-story tall silver tanks filled with tainted seawater.

U.S., French and Japanese flags hung near a water decontamination facility, which appeared as a cluster of white tents surrounded by black sand bags. The presence of toxins didn't appear to prevent pine trees from standing, and seemingly thriving, all around the facility.

Last spring was marked by regular reports of explosions, leaks and other problems at the plant. Those accounts, and radiation readings, in June led Japan's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters to confirm that three reactors -- Nos. 1, 2 and 3 -- had experienced full meltdowns. A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release.

The damage became starkly evident the closer one got to the heart of the nuclear facility.

From afar, a new structure surrounded the No. 1 reactor building, which had lost its roof due to a massive hydrogen explosion related to overheating the day after the quake.

No. 2 appeared to be intact, painted blue and white, despite a reported hydrogen detonation on March 15.

The No. 3 building, meanwhile, had been diminished to a skeletal concrete frame and large pile of rubble, which crews were cleaning up with cranes ahead of it being covered by its own structure.

And the No. 4 building -- whose reactor was inactive at the time of the tsunami -- also had significant damage, with one side entirely blown out, exposing the nuclear spent fuel pool.

Crumpled trucks and cars, twisted metal, a gutted office building and a huge dented storage tank were visible at the base of the reactor buildings, where radiation readings stood at 1,000 microsieverts (or 1 millisievert) per hour. Some of the debris resembled what swept up elsewhere in Japan by the tsunami, while others -- like three white cars, with Tokyo Electric markings -- were more distinct to the facility.

Around the plant, crows and dragonflies fluttered in the disarray. So, too, did scores of the 3,200 workers that Tokyo Electric says usually work daily at the plant. They included workers building water tanks, operating cranes, entering buildings used to store highly radioactive waste, and manning the facility's tightly contained disaster center.

The challenges notwithstanding, Tokyo Electric spokesman Tetsuya Terasawa insisted vast progress has been made in recent months.

He said that temperatures at the three most damaged reactors (Nos. 1, 2 and 3) were below 100 degrees Celsius, or the boiling point, a critical measure. All elements of the nuclear cooling system were perched on grounds 30 meters above the reactors, well out of the reach of any future tsunami, according to Terasawa.

Addressing Fukushima Daiichi workers, Goshi Hosono -- the Japanese government's nuclear crisis manager -- said he feels relieved that the facility is becoming increasingly stable.

"Every time I come back, I feel conditions have improved. This is due to your hard work," Hosono said.

The decommissions of Fukushima Daiichi's first four reactors will likely take more than 30 years to complete, according to a draft report released late last month by Japan's Atomic Energy Commission. The report indicated that nuclear fuel should begin to be removed by the end of 2021 -- a key, but hardly the last phase in a clean-up effort that is expected to continue for another two decades beyond that.

Masao Yoshida, the man in charge of the plant, said that all the reactors have stabilized and predicted that Tokyo Electric was on track to have a cold shutdown by year's end.

But he conceded that the danger is still far from over -- especially for the thousands still toiling to bring this nuclear nightmare to an end.

"Even saying it's stabilized doesn't mean that it is extremely safe," said Yoshida. "When working, the radiation remains high. So when it comes to working every day, there is still danger."

text: Tokyo

text: CNN

text: Journalists

text: got

text: their

text: first

text: ground

text: level

text: glance

text: Saturday

text: around

text: Japan

text: 's

text: stricken

text: Fukushima

text: Daiichi

text: nuclear

text: facility

text: eying

text: shells

text: of

text: reactor

text: buildings

text: tons

text: of

text: contaminated

text: water

text: and

text: workers

text: scurrying

text: still

text: to

text: mitigate

text: damage

text: from

text: a

text: crisis

text: that

text: began

text: eight

text: months

text: ago

text: An

text: epic

text: earthquake

text: and

text: subsequent

text: tsunami

text: March

text: wreaked

text: havoc

text: around

text: Japan

text: killing

text: more

text: than

text: people

text: While

text: many

text: of

text: those

text: died

text: instantly

text: the

text: East

text: Asian

text: nation

text: was

text: on

text: edge

text: for

text: weeks

text: as

text: utility

text: and

text: government

text: employees

text: scrambled

text: to

text: prevent

text: a

text: worsening

text: nuclear

text: catastrophe

text: at

text: the

text: Daiichi

text: plant

text: located

text: about

text: miles

text: kilometers

text: north

text: of

text: Tokyo

text: Japan

text: 's

text: Nuclear

text: and

text: Industrial

text: Safety

text: Agency

text: eventually

text: categorized

text: the

text: accident

text: as

text: a

text: event

text: on

text: the

text: international

text: scale

text: for

text: nuclear

text: disasters

text: the

text: highest

text: level

text: putting

text: it

text: on

text: par

text: with

text: the

text: Chernobyl

text: disaster

text: It

text: took

text: months

text: but

text: the

text: Tokyo

text: Electric

text: Power

text: Company

text: the

text: plant

text: 's

text: operator

text: eventually

text: indicated

text: that

text: its

text: workers

text: were

text: gaining

text: control

text: in

text: the

text: crisis

text: Throughout

text: the

text: summer

text: and

text: fall

text: there

text: were

text: no

text: longer

text: reports

text: of

text: explosions

text: nor

text: stories

text: about

text: new

text: leaks

text: of

text: radioactive

text: material

text: into

text: the

text: ground

text: and

text: sea

text: But

text: the

text: facility

text: still

text: remained

text: off

text: limits

text: to

text: reporters

text: and

text: for

text: a

text: radius

text: around

text: the

text: plant

text: to

text: the

text: general

text: public

text: due

text: to

text: the

text: continued

text: high

text: levels

text: of

text: radiation

text: and

text: ongoing

text: efforts

text: to

text: prevent

text: yet

text: more

text: blasts

text: and

text: leaks

text: That

text: temporarily

text: changed

text: Saturday

text: when

text: about

text: three

text: dozen

text: journalists

text: traveled

text: by

text: bus

text: through

text: abandoned

text: towns

text: en

text: route

text: to

text: the

text: nuclear

text: facility

text: They

text: passed

text: for

text: instance

text: withered

text: plants

text: at

text: an

text: abandoned

text: nursery

text: a

text: shattered

text: car

text: dealership

text: and

text: a

text: gas

text: station

text: that

text: had

text: been

text: taken

text: over

text: by

text: crows

text: Radiation

text: readings

text: rose

text: steadily

text: as

text: they

text: neared

text: the

text: plant

text: including

text: microsieverts

text: in

text: Okuma

text: There

text: those

text: on

text: board

text: put

text: on

text: respirator

text: masks

text: adding

text: to

text: an

text: ensemble

text: of

text: a

text: protective

text: suit

text: two

text: pairs

text: of

text: gloves

text: two

text: sets

text: of

text: plastic

text: booties

text: over

text: their

text: shoes

text: and

text: a

text: radiation

text: detector

text: At

text: the

text: plant

text: 's

text: gate

text: the

text: radiation

text: reading

text: was

text: microsieverts

text: The

text: reading

text: is

text: still

text: well

text: below

text: the

text: threshold

text: to

text: mandate

text: an

text: immediate

text: health

text: risk

text: microsieverts

text: equals

text: millisievert

text: and

text: South

text: Carolina

text: based

text: medical

text: physicist

text: G.

text: Donald

text: Frey

text: previously

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: radiation

text: workers

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: typically

text: aim

text: to

text: be

text: exposed

text: to

text: less

text: than

text: millisieverts

text: per

text: year

text: Yet

text: it

text: was

text: the

text: cumulative

text: effect

text: that

text: has

text: prompted

text: the

text: continued

text: evacuations

text: of

text: thousands

text: around

text: the

text: Fukushima

text: Daiichi

text: facility

text: A

text: half

text: dozen

text: large

text: cranes

text: dominated

text: the

text: skyline

text: inside

text: the

text: gates

text: while

text: the

text: grounds

text: were

text: pockmarked

text: with

text: vessels

text: containing

text: what

text: the

text: Tokyo

text: Electric

text: Power

text: Company

text: has

text: said

text: is

text: tons

text: of

text: water

text: laced

text: with

text: radiation

text: They

text: were

text: visible

text: in

text: tanks

text: that

text: filled

text: a

text: field

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: dozens

text: of

text: large

text: four

text: story

text: tall

text: silver

text: tanks

text: filled

text: with

text: tainted

text: seawater

text: U.S.

text: French

text: and

text: Japanese

text: flags

text: hung

text: near

text: a

text: water

text: decontamination

text: facility

text: which

text: appeared

text: as

text: a

text: cluster

text: of

text: white

text: tents

text: surrounded

text: by

text: black

text: sand

text: bags

text: The

text: presence

text: of

text: toxins

text: did

text: n't

text: appear

text: to

text: prevent

text: pine

text: trees

text: from

text: standing

text: and

text: seemingly

text: thriving

text: all

text: around

text: the

text: facility

text: Last

text: spring

text: was

text: marked

text: by

text: regular

text: reports

text: of

text: explosions

text: leaks

text: and

text: other

text: problems

text: at

text: the

text: plant

text: Those

text: accounts

text: and

text: radiation

text: readings

text: in

text: June

text: led

text: Japan

text: 's

text: Nuclear

text: Emergency

text: Response

text: Headquarters

text: to

text: confirm

text: that

text: three

text: reactors

text: Nos

text: and

text: had

text: experienced

text: full

text: meltdowns

text: A

text: meltdown

text: is

text: a

text: catastrophic

text: failure

text: of

text: the

text: reactor

text: core

text: with

text: a

text: potential

text: for

text: widespread

text: radiation

text: release

text: The

text: damage

text: became

text: starkly

text: evident

text: the

text: closer

text: one

text: got

text: to

text: the

text: heart

text: of

text: the

text: nuclear

text: facility

text: From

text: afar

text: a

text: new

text: structure

text: surrounded

text: the

text: No

text: reactor

text: building

text: which

text: had

text: lost

text: its

text: roof

text: due

text: to

text: a

text: massive

text: hydrogen

text: explosion

text: related

text: to

text: overheating

text: the

text: day

text: after

text: the

text: quake

text: No

text: appeared

text: to

text: be

text: intact

text: painted

text: blue

text: and

text: white

text: despite

text: a

text: reported

text: hydrogen

text: detonation

text: on

text: March

text: The

text: No

text: building

text: meanwhile

text: had

text: been

text: diminished

text: to

text: a

text: skeletal

text: concrete

text: frame

text: and

text: large

text: pile

text: of

text: rubble

text: which

text: crews

text: were

text: cleaning

text: up

text: with

text: cranes

text: ahead

text: of

text: it

text: being

text: covered

text: by

text: its

text: own

text: structure

text: And

text: the

text: No

text: building

text: whose

text: reactor

text: was

text: inactive

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: of

text: the

text: tsunami

text: also

text: had

text: significant

text: damage

text: with

text: one

text: side

text: entirely

text: blown

text: out

text: exposing

text: the

text: nuclear

text: spent

text: fuel

text: pool

text: Crumpled

text: trucks

text: and

text: cars

text: twisted

text: metal

text: a

text: gutted

text: office

text: building

text: and

text: a

text: huge

text: dented

text: storage

text: tank

text: were

text: visible

text: at

text: the

text: base

text: of

text: the

text: reactor

text: buildings

text: where

text: radiation

text: readings

text: stood

text: at

text: microsieverts

text: or

text: millisievert

text: per

text: hour

text: Some

text: of

text: the

text: debris

text: resembled

text: what

text: swept

text: up

text: elsewhere

text: in

text: Japan

text: by

text: the

text: tsunami

text: while

text: others

text: like

text: three

text: white

text: cars

text: with

text: Tokyo

text: Electric

text: markings

text: were

text: more

text: distinct

text: to

text: the

text: facility

text: Around

text: the

text: plant

text: crows

text: and

text: dragonflies

text: fluttered

text: in

text: the

text: disarray

text: So

text: too

text: did

text: scores

text: of

text: the

text: workers

text: that

text: Tokyo

text: Electric

text: says

text: usually

text: work

text: daily

text: at

text: the

text: plant

text: They

text: included

text: workers

text: building

text: water

text: tanks

text: operating

text: cranes

text: entering

text: buildings

text: used

text: to

text: store

text: highly

text: radioactive

text: waste

text: and

text: manning

text: the

text: facility

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question: What does the plant's chief think is likely?

answer: Tokyo Electric was on track to have a cold shutdown by year's end.

text: Tokyo Electric was on track to have a cold shutdown by year's end.

question: When did the quake take place?

answer: March 11

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question: What is the name of the plant?

answer: Daiichi nuclear facility

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question: what did the japanese official say

answer: "Every time I come back, I feel conditions have improved. This is due to your hard work,"

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question: when was the earthquake?

answer: March 11

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question: what plant was shut down?

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CISHAN, Taiwan (CNN) -- Taiwan's leader Ma Ying-jeou said Sunday he accepts responsibility for the government's slow response after Typhoon Morakot slammed into the island killing at more than 120 people and unleashing floods, mudslides and misery.

Mourners kneel and pray to the dead as they face the devastated valley of Shiao Lin.

Ma, who has faced heavy criticism from victims of the disaster, ruled out resignation, insisting his government did its best in the face of difficulties, however he pledged an investigation into any irregularities.

"Certainly, I will take full responsibility whatever the blame is because, after all, I am the president of this country," Ma told CNN, saying heavy rains grounded rescue helicopters in the first few days after the storm hit, delaying relief.

"Once the weather was good -- that is the 14th of August -- we were able to evacuate 2,518 people. It's a record," he said.

Hundreds of people still await rescue in remote areas of Taiwan, where torrential downpours, dense fog, rugged terrain and raging rivers have hampered relief efforts. Washed-out roads and collapsed bridges have made some rescue operations impossible

Touring disaster areas, Ma has been confronted by angry survivors, and even provoked a scuffle when he opened a weekend baseball game as protesters demanded he step down.

Ma has offered apologies and promises to do better.

"We will find out not only to correct the mistakes but (also) to punish the people responsible," he said.

Rescue efforts were ongoing Sunday with military helicopters bringing stranded villagers to their waiting relatives.  Watch rescue efforts in Taiwan Â»

Others, waiting days in anguish for word on their loved ones, lashed out in anger.

"Local officials don't care," one man said. "There are still people there and they don't do anything."

On Saturday, weeping relatives of typhoon victims set up shrines near devastated villages to calm the spirits of the dead and honor the belief that their souls will return home after seven days.  Watch mourners call home souls of the dead Â»

Morakot hit the island last weekend, dropping 2.6 meters (102 inches) of rain. Before it roared on to mainland China on Sunday, the storm killed at least 123 people in Taiwan.

The death toll could climb to more than 300 after more villagers buried by mudslides and floodwaters are found, Taiwan officials have said.

Southern and central Taiwan were hardest hit by the storm.

Mudslides inundated some places in the south, including the village of Shiao Lin, where 160 homes were lost. Authorities believe hundreds of people could be trapped under five stories of mud in the village.

International aid efforts were mobilizing on Sunday, however these were complicated by diplomatic pitfalls in the face of China's territorial claims over Taiwan, which it considers a renegade province awaiting reunification.

The U.S. military has begun a "modest" humanitarian aid mission to Taiwan with the dispatch of a Marine Corps C-130 cargo plane carrying plastic tarpaulins for shelter, U.S. defense officials said.

Also Sunday, the USS Denver was en route to the Taiwanese coast with additional humanitarian aid and water purification capabilities, the officials said. The Navy ship is expected to arrive Monday, but officials could not say when it will launch its heavy-lift helicopters to drop the aid.

Sources in Washington have said in providing aid to Taiwan, the United States must be sensitive to its territorial relationship with China.

CNN's John Vause in Cishan, Taiwan; Pauline Chiou in Shiao Lin, Taiwan; and Mike Mount in Washington contributed to this report.

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question: Has Ma Ying-jeou agreed to stand down as leader?

answer: ruled out resignation,

text: ruled out resignation,

question: Whats the name of the leader?

answer: Ma Ying-jeou

text: Ma Ying-jeou

question: Who took the blame for the slow typhoon response?

answer: Taiwan's leader Ma Ying-jeou

text: Taiwan's leader Ma Ying-jeou

question: Where did the typhoon strike?

answer: valley of Shiao Lin.

text: valley of Shiao Lin.

question: What is the name of Taiwan's leader?

answer: Ma Ying-jeou

text: Ma Ying-jeou

question: What was the number of fatalities from the typhoon in Taiwan?

answer: more than 120

text: more than 120

question: How many people were killed in the typhoon?

answer: 120

question: How many people died?

answer: more than 120

text: more than 120

question: How many are homeless?

answer: 2,518