Mar 15, 2011

Another Explosion at the Japanese Nuclear Plant Pushes Radiation Levels Up Briefly Kat Hannaford — After Saturday’s blast at Fukushima’s No.1 reactor and Monday’s blast at the No.3 reactor, we were hoping that’d be the end to the nuclear plant nightmares. Unfortunately a third blast occurred in the small hours of...

Mar 13, 2011

  By Scott DiSavino and Fredrik Dahl NEW YORK/VIENNA | Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:27pm EDT NEW YORK/VIENNA (Reuters) – Pumping seawater into troubled nuclear reactors in Japan should keep them from a catastrophic full-scale meltdown, but conditions are still so volatile that it is far too early to declare the emergency over, nuclear experts said. It is probably...

Mar 12, 2011

(Reuters) – Japanese officials may only have hours to cool reactors that have been disabled by Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami or face a nuclear meltdown. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) (9501.T) is racing to cool down the reactor core after a highly unusual “station blackout” — the total loss of power necessary to keep...

Mar 12, 2011

IDG News Service – A massive earthquake shook a large part of Japan on Friday afternoon, sparking a major tidal wave that washed through coastal communities and leaving a death toll that by evening was mounting into the hundreds, according to police reports. A massive tsunami sweeps in to engulf a residential area after a powerful earthquake struck off the...