Mar 18 Watch Japan’s Crises: A Critical First Week Review of the events following the devastating earthquake that struck Japan a week ago. Continue watching
Mar 18 Photo Essay: Destruction in Japan By News Desk A look at the aftermath of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan and damaged nuclear reactors. 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 Destruction in Japan A 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a massive tsunami that left thousands dead and Japan's nuclear facilities in peril. Continue reading
Mar 18 Nuclear Alert Level Raised, Official Says Response Should Have Been Quicker 5:55 p.m. ET | Photo Essay: Destruction in Japan 3:50 p.m. ET | Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as Tepco, announced its powerline had reached the plant and could supply electricity, raising hopes that it could restore… Continue reading
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 Order, Resilience Mark Japanese Response to Compound Crises The response to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crises has been marked by resilience and order among Japanese citizens. Jeffrey Brown talks with the Stimson Center's Yuki Tatsumi about how Japanese culture has factored into the disaster aftermath. 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 17 Cooling Efforts Continue, IAEA Official Says Situation Serious But Stable 5:45 p.m. ET | Engineers at the Fukushima Dai-ich plant have successfully connected a power cable to the facility, providing a way to restore the pumps that operate the reactors' cooling systems. Backup generators had proven insufficient after Friday's… Continue reading