Mar 22 Radiation in Japan’s Food Supply: Dangerous or Benign? By Jenny Marder The Japanese government reported on Sunday that it had halted some food shipments to prevent tainted samples of milk and spinach from reaching consumers. Iodine 131 was found in milk samples in Kawamata, a town in Fukushima prefecture, where the… Continue reading
Mar 22 Water Woes: Japan, Haiti and Kenya Among World’s Trouble Spots By Larisa Epatko In northeastern Japan, where people are still sifting through wreckage from the March 11 tsunami, more than a million households are without water. While in Haiti, health workers are scrambling to stave off a cholera epidemic. Still, in other parts… Continue reading
Mar 21 AT&T to Buy T-Mobile: Duopoly in the Making or Fair Business Merger? It's safe to say that AT&T's big move to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion took much of the tech world by surprise Monday -- and that seems to include Sprint, who had been in talks with T-Mobile recently. But there… Continue reading
Mar 21 Visualizing Japan’s Power Outages After Earthquake, Tsunami By Talea Miller Power losses on March 12 indicated in red. Image courtesy NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 decimated villages along the northeastern coast and knocked out power to a… Continue reading
Mar 21 Smoke Rises From Nuclear Reactors; Concerns Over Radiation in Food By Tom LeGro Smoke rose from two reactor units at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant Monday, stopping work to reconnect power lines and fix cooling systems to Japan's nuclear complex damaged by the March 11 earthquake. What caused the smoke from Unit 3… Continue reading
Mar 18 Japan’s Crises: A Critical First Week By Lauren Knapp It's been one week since the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan unleashed a devastating tsunami. The twin disasters caused major damage to a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, adding a brewing nuclear crisis to the country's woes. Continue reading
Mar 18 Nuclear Plant Control Room Simulator: Learning to Avoid Future Disasters EmbedVideo(142, 482, 304); The massive earthquake in Japan knocked out the power grid around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, then its backup generators failed amid the ensuing tsunami. Then came the explosions, radiation emissions and dangerously hot nuclear… Continue reading
Mar 18 Watch Beyond Japan: Nuclear Energy’s Future Hari interviews NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien on nuclear safety. Continue watching
Mar 18 Rating Nuclear Accidents and Incidents: Which Were the Worst? By Talea Miller With three reactors having at least partial meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan, the country raised the alert level from four to five on a seven-point international scale for atomic incidents Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency… Continue reading
Mar 17 Watch Satellites Offer New Window Into Documenting, Preventing Genocide Tom Bearden reports on the push to use private satellites to document genocide from space. Continue watching