May 13 Some Bright Spots Amid Worries in Japan’s Quake Recovery By Larisa Epatko This week, the first group of 100 people were allowed to return to their homes within the restricted zone circling the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan and retrieve some of their cherished possessions. Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch News Wrap: Groundwater Beneath Fukushima Plant Shows High Radiation Levels Radiation levels climb in area surrounding Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant. Continue watching
Mar 29 Watch 11:42 Revisiting Chernobyl: A Nuclear Disaster Site of Epic Proportions By PBS NewsHour The nuclear crisis in Japan has renewed interest in the 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien travels to the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, which is approaching its 25th anniversary. Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch Long-Term Impacts of Fukushima Reactor Could Linger For ‘A Generation or More’ Japanese officials reported that radioactive water has spread beyond a damaged building at the Fukushima nuclear power plant and had contaminated the ground near the site. Jeffrey Brown talks to Columbia University's David Brenner and the Carnegie Endowment for International… Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch News Wrap: Fukushima Workers Hospitalized After Possible Breach of Nuclear Core A synopsis of the day's other top news stories. Continue watching
Mar 23 Watch After Japan Crisis, What’s Next for U.S. Nuclear Policy, Plants? As Japan struggles to bring the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor under control, new questions are surfacing on where U.S. nuclear development stands. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports. Continue watching
Mar 23 Watch Elevated Radiation Levels Detected in Tokyo Tap Water Japanese officials warned Tokyo residents to avoid giving tap water to infants after tests revealed radiation levels exceeded safe limits. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on the latest problem stemming from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch Spent Fuel Pools: Assessing the Threat at Damaged Nuclear Plant American and Japanese officials have offered sharply different assessments of the situation at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Judy Woodruff weighs the threat of the spend fuel pools with the University of Southern California's Najmedin Meshkati and the Institute… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch New Fire at Damanged Japanese Nuclear Plant Escalates Radiation Concerns An explosion rocked another reactor at a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant as authorities stepped up efforts to protect people living nearby from radiation exposure. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on Japan's scramble to prevent the a nuclear… Continue watching