*** Japan Times E-mail News Service *** __________ Tuesday, May 3, 2011 ________________ TODAY'S TOP STORIES ========================= [NATIONAL NEWS] U.S. doctors hit Tokyo radiation limit for kids A U.S. nonprofit organization of medical experts condemns Japanese safety standards for radiation exposure set for school kids in disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture. [MORE] -> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110503a1.html --- [NATIONAL NEWS] Diet budgets \4 trillion for rebuilding The Diet enacts a \4.15 trillion supplementary budget for funding immediate efforts to rebuild from the March 11 disasters. [MORE] -> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110503a2.html --- [NATIONAL NEWS] Power cut doomed fallout computer The nation's system for predicting the volume of radioactive materials to be released into the environment failed amid the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant due to the power supply cut following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, sources say. 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