Work to stabilize the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was halted early Wednesday because radiation leaking from the units made the situation unsafe, Japanese officials said. (30 total photos)
1 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Japan Self-Defense Force's members conduct search operation through debris in Ofunato, Iwate, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
2 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Workers in protective gear check gloves for radiation contamination in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Koichi Nakamura)
3 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Firefighters continue search operation in snow in Minamisanriku, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroaki Ono)
4 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Sufferers read newspapers in Otsuchi, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Yoichi Hayashi )
5 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Braving falling snow, residents return to their evacuation shelter Wednesday March 16, 2011 in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
6 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A girl reacts as she learns woodwork at an elementary school turned into shelter in Onagawa, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
7 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Rescuers from U.S. head to conduct search operation in Ofunato, Iwate, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
8 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows Sea Hawk helicopters from the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 4 prepare to lift off after resupplying on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan off the coast of Japan Sunday March 13, 2011. (AP Photo/US Navy - Alexander Tidd/Released)
9 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Portrait frames lie amidst debris in Ofunato, Iwate, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
10 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A rescuer from U.S. searches for missing residents in Ofunato, Iwate, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
11 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Women react after they were reunited in Onagawa, Miyagi, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
12 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Father wraps her daughter with blanket in a cold in Onagawa, Miyagi, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
13 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Evacuees brush their teeth outside a shelter in Kawamata, Fukushima, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
14 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) This image made available from Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, shows the damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan, on Tuesday March 15, 2011. White smoke billows from the No. 3 unit. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News)
15 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A man is tested for radiation exposure in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Koichi Nakamura)
16 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Youth carry a woman from a shelter in Miyako, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Koichi Nakamura)
17 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Sufferers clear debris in Ofunato, Iwate, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
18 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A man crosses over a damaged rail track in Ofunato, Iwate, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
19 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Customers queue up to buy boxes of Japanese milk powder from a store in Hong Kong Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Hundreds of people queue up in Hong Kong to buy the milk powder as they are worry the future Japanese milk powder would be polluted by radiation and shortage of its imports. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
20 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) People wait in front of a mass retailer before its opening in Sendai, northern Japan Wednesday morning, March 16, 2011, after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
21 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A rescuer conducts search operation in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
22 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A rescuer searches for missing residents amidst debris in Natori, Miyagi, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
23 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Firefighters conduct search operation in Natori, Miyagi, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
24 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Leveled town is seen in Onagawa, Miyagi, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
25 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A woman feeds her baby at a shelter for those evacuated away from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Koriyama, Japan. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
26 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A man looks on at a shelter for those displaced by the earthquake Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Koriyama, Japan. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
27 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Police officers carry the body of a victim at Friday's earthquake and tsunami devastated area Wednesday March 16, 2011, in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi, northern Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
28 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A man rests in a hallway of a shelter for those evacuated away from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Koriyama, Japan. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
29 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) A woman uses her phone as she found a quiet place at a shelter for those evacuated away from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Koriyama, Japan. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
30 of 30 Link to this photo | Comments about this photo essay (0) Tokyo Electric Co. employees in charge of public relations, in blue uniform, explain the situation of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex during a press conference Wednesday, March 16, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. The outer housing of the containment vessel at the No. 4 unit at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex erupted in flames early Wednesday, said a spokesman for the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)