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
May 11 Slide Show: The Japan Crisis, 2 Months Later By Talea Miller It has been two months since a catastrophic earthquake rocked Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and critically damaging the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the slide show below, learn more about the toll and costs of the triple-disaster,… Continue reading
Apr 12 Japan Raises Nuclear Crisis Level, Pakistan Demands Cut in CIA Presence By News Desk Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has raised the level of the nuclear crisis at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant to a seven, matching the level used to describe Chernobyl. Officials said the increase was a description of the… Continue reading
Apr 11 Strong Aftershock Jolts Japan on One Month Anniversary of Tsunami, Earthquake Disaster By Tom LeGro One month after the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, 2-year-old Ayaka and family members pray for her missing grandmother and great-grandmother at a vacant lot where they lived in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images. As Japan somberly… Continue reading
Apr 07 7.1-Magnitude Quake Hits off Japan Coast By Ray Suarez Updated 12:10 p.m. ET | Japan's meteorological society has lifted its tsunami warning, an hour and a half after the quake hit at 11:30 p.m. local time, the Associated Press reports. Updated 12 p.m. ET | The U.S. Geological Society… Continue reading
Apr 06 Q&A: IFRC on Evacuee Conditions, Nuclear Crisis Concerns By Betty Ann Bowser Tsunami survivors at an evacuation centre in Yamada, Iwate prefecture. Photo by Owaki Mutsuhiko / Japanese Red Cross Society The situation in Japan's evacuation centers is "dire" for the more than 170,000 people still displaced from their homes by the… Continue reading
Apr 04 Japan to Release Radioactive Water into Pacific Ocean in Effort to Cool Reactors By News Desk Photo byTokyo Electric Power Co. Workers at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant are using a dye substance in an effort to trace the source of a leak spreading radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean and hampering efforts to… Continue reading
Mar 31 Japan’s Radioactive Leak: What Are the Long-Term Consequences? By Talea Miller Fukushima nuclear power plant. Environmental and nuclear scientists in the U.S. are watching apparent leakage discovered at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor site this week with a concerned eye, for both health effects and impact on the environment. Japanese safety… Continue reading
Mar 30 Four Reactors to Be Decomissioned, Seawater Radiation Levels Rise By News Desk Tokyo Electric Power Company has said four of the six reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant cannot be fixed and will be decommissioned as efforts to contain the spread of radioactive water continue at the facility. Meantime, seawater… Continue reading
Mar 29 Explainer: What Is the Difference Between Radiation and Radioactive Contaminants? The damage caused at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami has created a host of potential hazards for workers and residents. Radiation and radioactive contaminants can have serious effects on humans, and can spread… Continue reading