Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said.
Songda’s winds increased to 241 kilometers (150 miles) per hour from 213 kph...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said fuel rods are fully exposed in the No. 1 reactor at its stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, setting back the utility’s plan to resolve the crisis.
The water level is 1 meter (3.3 feet) below the base of the fuel assembly, Junichi Matsumoto, a general...
March 16, 2011, Tokyo, Japan]-----50 evacuated workers at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant are reportedly back on the job Wednesday, desperately trying to avert a nuclear meltdown.
U.S. experts say the situation there is dire and workers may be on a suicide mission, as they may likely be...