.- Japan and the U.S. military will begin tomorrow a new joint search operation to try to find the bodies of nearly 12 thousand missing persons in the northeast by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, NHK reported today. The operation will last two days and will involve approximately 25 000 Japanese and U.S.
military, in addition to 90 aircraft, ships and fifty troops from the Police Coast Guard and Japan. The search will focus on the coast of the provinces of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the three most affected by the disaster, which left 14 000 11 000 300 dead and 999 missing, according to police last count.
You will track the region's coastal waters, including for the first time, which are within a radius of 30 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant, which were not surveyed in previous operations, according to NHK. This is the third such device made by members of Japan and the U.S., after two similar operations earlier this month that only managed to find dozens of bodies, as it is believed that much of the missing were swept out to sea.
The earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, also destroyed more than 68,000 homes, while about 130 000 people remain evacuated in about two thousand five hundred shelters. The disaster has also opened a serious crisis in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, where technicians are working day and night to try to cool four of its six units, after the cooling system of the plant is damaged.
The operator of the plant, TEPCO hopes to restore a stable cooling for summer and bring the reactor to the state of "cold shutdown" within six to nine months. 
military, in addition to 90 aircraft, ships and fifty troops from the Police Coast Guard and Japan. The search will focus on the coast of the provinces of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the three most affected by the disaster, which left 14 000 11 000 300 dead and 999 missing, according to police last count.
You will track the region's coastal waters, including for the first time, which are within a radius of 30 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant, which were not surveyed in previous operations, according to NHK. This is the third such device made by members of Japan and the U.S., after two similar operations earlier this month that only managed to find dozens of bodies, as it is believed that much of the missing were swept out to sea.
The earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, also destroyed more than 68,000 homes, while about 130 000 people remain evacuated in about two thousand five hundred shelters. The disaster has also opened a serious crisis in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, where technicians are working day and night to try to cool four of its six units, after the cooling system of the plant is damaged.
The operator of the plant, TEPCO hopes to restore a stable cooling for summer and bring the reactor to the state of "cold shutdown" within six to nine months.
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