Strong earthquake jolts northeastern Japan
Source: Charlotte Observer Online
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2012-11-01 20:46:18 -0700 | travel-news
Geological Survey is reporting that another strong earthquake has jolted northeastern Japan, the same region devastated by March's massive quake and tsunami...The U.S.G.S. says the magnitude 6.2-quake struck at 3:51 a.m. Monday and was centered at a depth of 22.1...
Fukushima beef shipments banned
Source: BBC
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2011-09-23 16:15:27 -0700 | travel-news
Japan bans Fukushima beef shipments Retailers have already bought contaminated beef from Fukushima The Japanese government has banned all shipments of cattle from the Fukushima prefecture on concerns about contaminated beef. More than 500 cows are thought to have eaten...
Left demands suspension of work at Jaitapur nuke project
Source: The Hindu
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2011-09-13 16:01:45 -0700 | business-news
Mumbai, July 13, 2011 The Left parties on Wednesday demanded immediate suspension of work at the proposed 9900 mw Jaitapur nuclear power project and said it favoured an independent review of existing nuclear installations in the country. Addressing a press...
Earthquake Prompts Tsunami Warning in Japan
Source: Fox
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2011-09-10 16:52:47 -0700 | travel-news
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit Japan's northeastern coast on Sunday, prompting a tsunami warning for the area still recovering from a devastating quake and killer wave four months ago. Residents in coastal areas were warned to...
Japan quake sparks tsunami alert
Source: BBC
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2012-11-01 21:18:41 -0700 | political-news
Earthquake off Japan triggers tsunami alert The new quake could pose a fresh threat to the Fukushima nuclear plant A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.1 off north-eastern Japan has triggered a tsunami warning, reports say. Japan's meteorological agency issued a...
National › Health checkups of 2 million Fukushima Pref residents start
Source: Japan Today
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2011-08-27 23:11:49 -0700 | business-news
The prefectural government of Fukushima on Monday started health checkups for all of its around 2 million residents in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. The prefecture has launched an unprecedented effort to continuously...
Triple disaster proves need for an industrial revolution
Source: Japan Times
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2011-08-17 21:51:56 -0700 | business-news
Some three months since the colossal earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan, stricken areas are getting on track for recovery with local industrial production capacity having been restored to as much as 90 percent of pre-disaster levels. Tokyo Electric Power...
Nuclear power referendum in Italy
Source: BBC
Venice :: Italy | updated 2011-08-13 01:14:25 -0700 | political-news
Italy votes in nuclear power referendum BBC News, Rome Greenpeace says the technology is as dangerous as in Japan Italians have begun voting in four referendums, the most important of which is whether people want Italy to resume nuclear power...
Radioactive mushrooms contaminated in Chernobyl disaster seized at British port
Source: Mail Online UK
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2011-08-12 04:35:32 -0700 | travel-news
The Bulgarian consignment of dried wild mushrooms is thought to have been irradiated by caesium 137 from the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine 25 years ago. It was found by a UK Border Agency team looking for illegal immigrants and impounded...
Radiation Understated After Quake, Japan Says
Source: Newyork Times
Vladimir :: Russia | updated 2011-08-07 09:01:20 -0700 | political-news
It is unclear whether a more accurate reading of emissions levels would have promoted a swifter or wider evacuation from around the plant. Still, the lag in reporting the true extent of the emissions added to what some critics have...
Japan PM denies bungling nuke crisis
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2011-07-23 23:05:39 -0700 | technology-news
Over the weekend, Japanese media reported that a day after the Fukushima nuclear plant was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami, Mr Kan ordered the pumping of seawater into the No...It is alleged the order was given to stop a...
Crisis center kept in dark on SPEEDI data
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-06-16 03:16:54 -0700 | political-news
Fukushima No.1 power plant, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Friday. Edano said the prime minister's office received a fax containing computer projections of how radioactive materials probably dispersed in the early hours of March 12 a day after the...
After March 11, Japan must reconsider its energy options
Source: Japan Times
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2012-11-02 09:02:09 -0700 | political-news
Viewed from abroad, there is no doubt that Japan is suffering an unmitigated disaster. In my position as the director of an International Center at a Japanese university, I have been asked time and again by our partner universities overseas:...
Japan to enforce nuclear evac zone
Source: CNN
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2011-06-20 21:23:27 -0700 | technology-news
Japan will begin enforcing an often-flouted evacuation order and keep people out of the 20-km zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a top official announced Wednesday. About 78,000 people have homes in the evacuation zone, and many have...
Wisdom for reconstruction
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-06-20 21:24:38 -0700 | business-news
The reconstruction will be long and difficult work because of the horrific extent of the damage. The impacted Pacific coastal areas stretch some 500 km and the natural disasters have been accompanied by the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power...
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