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
Mar 15 In Japan, Fears of Radiation Exposure Grow as Nuclear Crisis Worsens By Lea Winerman A doctor checks uses a geiger counter to check the level of radiation on a woman while a soldier in gas mask looks on at a radiation treatment centre in Nihonmatsu city in Fukushima prefecture on March 13, 2011. Photo… Continue reading
Mar 15 Japan’s Reshaped Coastline as Seen From Space By Larisa Epatko View NASA's satellite imagery of Japan's northeastern coast before and after the March 11 tsunami. Continue reading
Mar 14 Explore Tsunami’s Aftermath in Japan By Travis Daub Google Earth has published updated satellite images that show earthquake and tsunami damage in Japan. Explore these images and view related video and photos. Several of these images require the Google Earth plugin for your Web… Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch Japan’s Earthquake, Tsunami Survivors Begin Digging Out as Death Toll Climbs The death toll climbed to 1,900 after a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled northeastern Japan, but some officials estimated the toll would exceed 10,000. James Mates, Alex Thomson and Angus Walker of Independent Television News report from Japan on the… Continue watching
Mar 14 Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: Does it Compare to Three Mile Island, Chernobyl? By Jenny Marder Even as Japanese officials try to sort out whether jolted nuclear reactors could slip into full meltdown after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami, experts are weighing in on how events unfolding there compare to previous high-profile nuclear disasters. The… Continue reading
Mar 14 Third Blast Rocks Japan Nuclear Plant; Death Toll Rises as Bodies Wash Ashore By News Desk Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility on March 14. Photo via DigitalGlobe. 10:30 p.m. ET The nuclear crisis in Japan escalated Tuesday after an explosion at an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant damaged a reactor's containment vessel, raising the danger… Continue reading
Mar 14 Responders Rush to Aid Japan Victims, Evacuees By Talea Miller Tens of thousands of rescue workers are descending on Japan's northeast coast following the devastating earthquake and tsunami Friday that killed at least 10,000, according to a recent Associated Press estimate. More than half a million people have been evacuated… Continue reading
Mar 13 Death Toll Climbs in Japan as Nuclear Threat Grows By News Desk People evacuate by boat down a road flooded by tsunami waves in the Japanese city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, a day after a massive quake and tsunami hit the region. Photo by Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images The death… Continue reading
Mar 12 Explosion Rocks Japanese Nuclear Power Plant in Quake’s Aftermath By News Desk Updated 4:15 p.m. ET | In a last-ditch effort to avert a nuclear meltdown, officials in Japan flooded a nuclear reactor with seawater on Saturday, the New York Times reported. Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, said Tokyo Electric… Continue reading