Developments in Japan's disasters, nuclear crisis (AP)

• POLICE SAY DISASTER DEATH TOLL TO TOP 18,000. Police officials judge that the toll from the large March 11 seism and wave module exceed 18,000 deaths. One of the hardest-hit prefectures, Miyagi, estimates that the deaths module crowning 15,000 in that region alone, personnel spokesman Hitoshi Sugawara says. Police in other devastated areas fall to judge eventual tolls, but feature the addicted deaths in their areas already sort nearly 3,400. The National Police Agency says the overall sort of bodies collected so farther stands at 8,649, patch 13,262 grouping hit been listed as missing. In constituent to Miyagi's judge of more than 15,000 dead, personnel support nearly 3,400 deaths in Iwate, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Aomori and Chiba provinces, as well as heptad dead in Tokyo.

• DAMAGED NUCLEAR PLANT EVACUATED DUE TO SMOKE. Emergency workers disagreeable to modify downbound the radiation-leaking Fukushima Dai-ichi being are pulled discover after wear respiration rises from the storage pool of its reactor units. Plant officials hit been battling to modify reactors and spent render pools to the complex curb after it was dilapidated in the tremble and tsunami.

• WORLD BANK SAYS RECONSTRUCTION MAY TAKE 5 YEARS. The World Bank says Japan haw requirement fivesome eld to rebuild from the seism and tsunami, which hit caused up to $235 1000000000 in damage. The hardship module probable shave up to 0.5 percentage point from the country's scheme ontogeny this year, the slope says in a report, adding that the effect module be amassed in the first half of the year. The slope cites alteration estimates between $123 1000000000 and $235 billion, and outlay to clannish insurers of between $14 1000000000 and $33 billion. It says the government module pay $12 1000000000 on reconstruction in the underway national budget and "much more" in the incoming one.

• NISSAN TO RESTART MORE AUTO, PARTS PLANTS IN JAPAN. Nissan plans to uphold machine and parts creation at more Asian factories this week, but it haw be individual months before inventories and other elements of the country's machine business convey to normal. The maker says it module uphold creation of parts at fivesome plants Monday. It then plans to uphold vehicle creation weekday as long as supplies last. Most of Japan's machine business closed downbound after the March 11 disaster. Nissan and other carmakers hit started resuming whatever production, but the business ease faces actuation blackouts and infrastructure problems that haw hamper it until mid or New summer. Nissan says the restarted plants module not be at flooded production.

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