evacuation

residents of Japan have good cause to mistrust the media, TEPCO officials, and members of their government when it comes to assurances about radiation levels, plutonium dispersal, and the related health risks. Americans also have good cause to mistrust these same sort of assurances issued to...

TOKYO — Japan’s system for predicting the volume of radioactive materials to be released into the environment failed in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant due to the power supply cut following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, sources close to the matter...

FUKUSHIMA--Many residents in Fukushima Prefecture who have been told to prepare for evacuation have been refused service by moving companies, it has been learned. People living in designated areas have been told to evacuate within one month because of radiation leaks from the Fukushima No. 1...

Link Removed Fukushima Reactor Number 4 ©Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri. “Should the public discover the true health cost[s] of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse to cooperate passively with their own death.” Dr. Rosalie Bertell. “No Immediate...

Link Removed Japan's cabinet approved on Friday almost $50 billion of spending for post-earthquake rebuilding, a downpayment on the country's biggest public works effort in six decades. The emergency budget of 4 trillion yen ($48.5 billion), which is likely be followed by more...

High radiation to force extention of evacuation zone-media * Voter anger at nuclear crisis hits PM Kan's party * No end in sight to month-long nuclear crisis (Updates with evacuation zone latest, elections, quotes) By Chisa Fujioka and Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japan plans...

Thanks to RubiconDecision - USA Unit #1 appears to be extremely radioactive based on data parameters for the dry well (over 100 Sv/h) and the suppression pool (12 Sv/h). While the D/W is off the charts, all other data points indicate some kind of operation is occurring. The fuel rods in #1...

Posted April 9th, 2011 by Link Removed due to 404 Error All 6 units of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have been shut down. Unit 1 (Shut down)-Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed after the big quake occurred at 3:36 pm on March 12th. It was assumed to be hydrogen...

Experts warn that the situation will take months to stabalise and a large area could remain uninhabitable [REUTERS] Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was heavily damaged by the tsunami from the massive March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake continues to spread extremely high levels...

Link Removed Concern remains over the potential effect on human health from radiation leaks at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. A 20km (12 mile) evacuation zone affecting about 70,000 people has been imposed around the plant. Residents living within 30km (18 miles) have been advised...

Link RemovedMembers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force spray water onto the wharf of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Workers pumped concrete into a leaking pit holding power cables near reactor No. 2 Saturday in an attempt to stop a leak of radioactive water. (Japan Ministry of...

Link Removed due to 404 Error As Japan's prime minister visited tsunami-ravaged coastal areas for the first time Saturday, frustrated evacuees complained that the government has been too focused on the nuclear crisis that followed the massive wave. Nearly every day some new problem at...

The International Atomic Energy Agency weighed in on the simmering nuclear crisis with alarming radiation data, but the government said Thursday it has no plans for now to expand the current evacuation zone. The international nuclear watchdog said Wednesday in Geneva it detected about 2...

Link RemovedAs dangerously high levels of radiation spread beyond the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, there are fears the race to contain the nuclear crisis has been lost and meltdown has already taken place. Radiation measured at a village 40 kilometres from the Fukushima nuclear plant now...

Link Removed due to 404 Error ONAGAWA, Japan – As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant. Nearly three weeks later, 240 remain, watching TV or playing ball games with their children next...

Tokyo (CNN) -- Smoke was spotted at another nuclear plant in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The company said smoke was detected in the turbine building of reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant around 6 p.m. (5 a.m. ET). Smoke could no longer be...

Radiation levels in sea water near Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have reached more than 3,000 times the legal limit, officials said, as efforts continue to bring the country's nuclear crisis under control. Japan's nuclear safety agency said on Wednesday that water near the crippled...

Reuters) - Workers were evacuated on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after high doses of radiation were detected at Japan's stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the plant's operator said. Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant's operator, said radiation 10 million times...

Police say that package exploded next to Egged bus 74 opposite Binyanei Ha'uma in central Jerusalem; Netanyahu delaying departure for Moscow. An explosion took place on or near a bus in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon. Police said that a bomb exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at...