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Japan continues to jolt under quakes 11 April 2011
Planet Earth’s fury continues to trouble the Japanese. Exactly a month after the northeastern parts of Japan were devastated by a powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, an earthquake of a magnitude of 7.1 rocked the country today swaying...
Keywords: earthquake, earthquake, earthquake, Fukushima
Read MorePlutonium leaking from Fukushima Nuclear plant 29 March 2011
Highly dangerous and toxic plutonium is seeping into the soil out side the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daii-chii nuclear power plant multiplying the problems of the technicians to cool the overheated facility. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told media persons in...
Keywords: earth quake of Japan, Plutonium leaking, Plutonium leaking, radioactive leakage
Read MoreFukushima still polluting Pacific? 20 August 2013
Japan's atomic regulator as well as operator announced on Monday, according to a report, that clay like matter characterized by extremely high radiation levels have been explored near water storage tanks at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Kyodo news agency...
Keywords: japan's atomic regulator, toxic clay like matter at fukushima nuclear plant, tokyo electric power co, japan's atomic regulator
Read MoreFukushima Nuclear disaster aftereffects surface 16 August 2012
After the dangerous disasters of the Fukushima Nuclear Plant, a few scientists have found out that the aftereffects of the nuclear disaster are beginning to surface slowly. The radioactive fallout in the reactors have shown their effects that are obvious...
Keywords: Joji Otaki, , Fukushima, Japan
Read MoreJapan death toll crosses 10,000 14 March 2011
Even as the death toll in the earthquake-tsunami hit Japan crossed 10,000 and lakhs of people found their homes missing totally or destroyed fully or partially, a second hydrogen explosion took place Monday morning in the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear...
Keywords: Fukushima Dai-ichi, Death toll of Japan tsunami, Death toll of Japan tsunami, Death toll of Japan tsunami
Read MoreJapan crossed 24,000 in death or missing 23 March 2011
The death toll of earthquake-tsunami hit Japan crossed 24,000 many people confirmed dead or listed as missing. Wednesday after completion of 12 days Police confirmed this figure. The National Police Agency confirmed the numbers of death and missing as on...
Keywords: Fukushima Dai-ichi, Death toll of Japan tsunami, Death toll of Japan tsunami, volcano eruption in Japan
Read MoreWatering efforts over Fukushima watered down 17 March 2011
The army helicopters of Japan tried in vain to spread water on the Tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday. The air-borne rescue teams returned to their bases without doing any thing as higher radiation levels could not allow them...
Keywords: Fukushima nuclear plant, Watering efforts, explosions in Fukushima nuclear plant, Watering efforts
Read MoreRadioactive water being pumped out of Fukushima 19 April 2011
Japanese engineers and workers, after days of struggling, today began pumping out highly dangerous radioactive water that has accumulated in the basement of turbine buildings of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to a specially erected storage area. The pumping out...
Keywords: Radioactive water, Radioactive water, Radioactive water, Radioactive water
Read MoreRadiation Detected in Tokyo taps 23 March 2011
Radiation exceeds up to drinking water in Tokyo, an Official in city on Wednesday found the radioactive iodine in tap water. He advised parents should not give water to their babies. Tokyo and in Fukushima prefecture, home of nuclear power...
Keywords: radioactive iodine, Radiation, Radiation in water taps, Fukushima nuclear power plant
Read MoreJapan uses German pumps for watering reactors 22 March 2011
The Japanese military and civilian authorities resumed efforts today to restore power to the reactors at the earthquake and tsunami-shaken Fukushima Dai-Chi nuclear power plant. The authorities launched their efforts on Sunday but they were forced to abandon them as...
Keywords: Fukushima nuclear power plant, power supply to the reactors, Fukushima nuclear power plant, power supply to the reactors
Read MoreDevastated Japan experiences after shocks 12 March 2011
After the Friday’s earthquake and Tsunami that devastated coastal towns and other areas in the Northern Japan, the country witnessed 14 powerful aftershocks on Saturday with a magnitude ranging from 5 to 6.8 on the Richter scale. Reports said the...
Keywords: Japan earthquake, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, nuclear plant meltdown, nuclear plant shutdown
Read MoreAnti nuke give new angle to Dam controversy in TN and Kerala 06 December 2011
Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in the Tirunelveli district, in Tamil Nadu, is hitting headlines regularly due to the controversies looming over its operation, which were suspended since two months. The reasons being natives, in large numbers were protesting against...
Keywords: People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, Atomic Energy Commission, technocrats are poor communicators, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy
Read MoreRadiation from Japan n-plant detected in China 27 March 2011
Low levels of radiation from the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has been detected in northeast China, authorities said. The National Nuclear Emergency Coordination Committee confirmed on Saturday that an 'infinitesimal' amount of radioactive iodine-131 was detected in the...
Keywords: tsunami, Fukushima nuclear plant, Fukushima nuclear plant, tsunami
Read MoreRadiation spreading towards US West Coast 18 March 2011
Leading American daily Los Angeles Times said today in a story that radiation, spreading from the earthquake and tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan which had experienced four hydrogen explosions this week, has been fast travelling through the atmosphere...
Keywords: Fukushima radiation, Fukushima radiation, Fukushima radiation, Radiation
Read MoreJapan prime minister says Fukushima reactors are now constant 17 December 2011
On Friday Japan's prime minister Yoshihiko Noda said that, the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima which was destroyed by tsunami has now come to the state of cold shutdown.And there is no continued leaking abundant amounts of radiation. As prime...
Keywords: Fukushima reactors, Yoshihiko Noda, Japan prime minister, Fukushima reactors
Read MoreFears over spread of radiation not yet over 18 March 2011
Even as Japan, cooping with the worst ever natural calamity it faced after the Second World War, was struggling to cool with water the heated up reactors at the earthquake and tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, columns of smoke were...
Keywords: fear of spread of radiation, Japan earthquake, fear of spread of radiation, tsunami
Read MoreInfosys, TCS flying Indians back from Japan 15 March 2011
With latest reports from Japan establishing that the radioactive winds, triggered by the two hydrogen blasts in the earthquake-tsunami crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, heading towards the country’s capital city Tokyo, Indian software giants TCS and Infosys have decided to...
Keywords: Infosys, radioactive winds, Infosys, Infosys
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