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...