nuclear disaster

No one likes an alarmist without cause, however, in this case, there appears to be ample cause for alarm. Study the close up views of the #3 reactor explosion and you will see that the blast was not the type of blast one would expect from a hydrogen explosion. The fireball seen in the corner of...

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's nuclear safety agency on Friday worsened its assessment of problems at the Fukushima nuclear power plant as soldiers and utility workers continued a frantic effort to hose down overheating nuclear fuel with water cannons. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised...

They are leaving us to die," says the mayor of Minamasoma inside the exclusion zone. The governor of the region at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis has criticised official handling of the evacuation of the area around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Fukushima prefecture...

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...

Good morning everyone. This is the latest from my contacts in Japan, probably one of the last since they are leaving very soon. #2 and #3 reactor containment vessels are confirmed breached. Radiation is leaking uncontrolled from them. Radiation levels at the plant went to over 11,000...

Link RemovedThis handout picture shows the damaged third (L) and fourth reactors of the TEPCO Fukushima No.1 power plant in Fukushima, north of Tokyo, March 16, 2011 Japan's government acknowledged Wednesday it might need the help of U.S. military forces to halt continuing radioactive emissions...

Worried Americans are panic-buying drugs to protect themselves against the nuclear fallout in Japan after the U.S. Surgeon General warned 'be prepared'. Regina Benjamin said it was right to be prepared for harmful radiation that could blow across to the West Coast following explosions at the...

Link Removed The explosion on Tuesday at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Photograph: Abc Tv/EPA Japan is facing one of the world's biggest nuclear crises as a team of engineers struggles to regain control of the Fukushima plant following another explosion and a fire that caused radiation to rise...

A make-shift cover -- the 'Sarcophagus' -- was built in six months after the explosion. It covers the stricken reactor to protect the environment from radiation for at least 30 years. This has now developed cracks, triggering an international effort to fund a new encasement. * Ukraine is seeking...

Residents in the capital, 150 miles south of Fukushima, prepare for possible lockdown as embassies advise citizens to leave Link Removed News of a serious radiation leak at the Fukoshima nuclear plant has sparked panic buying in Tokyo, as some residents started to leave the capital to escape...

Stricken nuclear cores cooling naturally . By Gerard Wynn LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - The risk of a major radiation leak in Japan is subsiding as stricken nuclear reactors cool, but there will be major clean-up costs and three reactors will probably be written off, experts said on Monday. A...

The fear of a nuclear meltdown has lead to foreign residents leaving Japan. Death toil expected to rise above 10,000 according to Japanese police. A third reactor is not responding to water cooling methods . Danger of an explosion rises but the reactor should withstand the explosion Japanese...