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... of clean water supply and sanitation with William Fellows, UNICEF's global water, sanitation and hygiene cluster coordinator. JAPAN: Waterless households on the rise FELLOWS: Japan is a disaster is on top of a disaster. Right now, there are about 1.8 million households in Japan that do not have ...
Smoke billowed anew Monday from two of the Japanese nuclear reactors damaged in the earthquake and tsunami disaster. Judy Woodruff talks to a former IAEA official about efforts to contain the crisis. ... GWEN IFILL: Engineers in Japan pressed forward today with efforts to restore power to a crippled nuclear plant ...
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 vast swath of the country. To determine how severe the power outage ...
... form of food and fossil fuels. (Pearl Harbor was in fact triggered by the U.S. denial of oil to Japan, a denial triggered by Japan's invasion of China, an invasion triggered in part by Japan's desire for nearby raw materials.) But if Japan's companies go under ...
... a courageous stand against a regime determined to brutalize its own citizens," the president said in Rio de Janeiro. Read: President Obama's full speech JAPAN | On the other side of the globe in Japan, authorities made some progress in keeping the six reactors cool at the Fukushima Dai-ichi ...
From Beijing, Jeffrey Kaye reports on China's concerns over the nuclear radiation threat from the damaged Japanese reactors and sympathy for their neighbor reeling from a devastating natural disaster. ... RAY SUAREZ: In China, Japan's biggest neighbor, there is both worry and sympathy. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye has been ...
... and tsunami, were beyond anything it ever planned for. And Prime Minister Naoto Kan appealed for unity in the face of staggering loss. NAOTO KAN, Japanese prime minister (through translator): This is the worst crisis Japan has faced, and we are now being tested. Japan, in its past history, built ...
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. We look back at Japan's difficult week ...
A look at the aftermath of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan and damaged nuclear reactors.
Hari interviews NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien on nuclear safety.
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