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Japan Yanks Workers at Crippled Nuke Plant

Work suspended, residents flee as radiation surges

(Newser) - Japan suspended operations to keep its stricken Fukishima Dai-ichi nuclear plant from melting down yesterday after surging radiation made it too dangerous for employees to stay. Workers dousing the reactors in a frantic effort to cool them have been ordered to withdraw, a government minister said. "The workers cannot...

Fire Flares at Nuclear Plant; 2 Workers Missing

Japan still on brink on nuclear meltdown

(Newser) - Yet another fire appears to have erupted at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, reports Reuters . Details remained sketchy, and it's possible this fire is a flare-up from an earlier fire at the building that houses reactor No. 4. That earlier fire blew a hole in the building and emitted radiation,...

Dog Sticks By Injured Friend After Tsunami

Video illustrates challenges of animal victims, says blog

(Newser) - This one looks to be going viral on BuzzFeed : A video from Japan shows one dog sticking by the side of another dog who's apparently been injured in the tsunami. It's not just for an aw-shucks moment, adds the LifeWithDogs blog , which has the video posted on site. "Yesterday,...

50 Japan Workers Risk Lives Trying to Avert Meltdown

They remain in plant amid fire, explosions, and dangerous radiation levels

(Newser) - Japan has evacuated roughly 170,000 people from a 30-mile radius around the Fukishima Dai-ichi plant and even instituted a no-fly zone around it, but at least 50 people aren't going anywhere. That's how many technicians remain inside the plant, writes Dana Kennedy at AoL News , and it's no exaggeration...

Japan Earthquake: Two Large Aftershocks Rattle Tokyo
 2 New Quakes Rattle Tokyo 
Mar 15, 2011 11:07 AM CDT

2 New Quakes Rattle Tokyo

Aftershocks measured 6.2 and 6.0

(Newser) - Japan has been rattled by a couple of aftershocks within minutes, causing buildings in Tokyo to sway. The first, measuring 6.2 in magnitude, struck tonight off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, 200 miles northeast of Tokyo and near where the massive quake hit last Friday. Three minutes later, a...

Japan Earthquake Miracles: Baby Rescued From Rubble, and More

 Baby Pulled From 
 Rubble in Japan 
and more miracle rescues
Mar 15, 2011 9:20 AM CDT

Baby Pulled From Rubble in Japan

Elderly woman also rescued from house after five days

(Newser) - From the devastation in Japan, a few miracles: Most notably, a 4-month-old baby pulled from the rubble in the coastal town of Ishinomaki, where she had been wrenched from her parents’ arms when the tsunami hit three days before. Soldiers, whose mission had turned from rescue to recovery after finding...

For Japan's Elderly, Crisis Echoes WWII

Tsunami survivors tell stories of heroism, selfishness

(Newser) - Younger Japanese aren’t familiar with the level of destruction wrought by the tsunami—but those who lived through World War II have seen it once before. Older residents of tsunami-hit areas long ago grappled with radiation risks and mass destruction. “I lived through the Sendai air raids,”...

Japan Nuclear Crisis: 'We Are on the Brink'

Experts say worst-case scenario could be upon us

(Newser) - Now that Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station has experienced its third explosion in four days and radiation is spreading , “We are on the brink. We are now facing the worst-case scenario,” says one expert. In an extensive New York Times piece detailing the timeline and series...

Japan's Earthquake Upgraded to 9.0

That's 1.5 times stronger than original estimate of 8.9

(Newser) - The US Geological Survey has upgraded the magnitude of Friday's deadly earthquake in Japan to 9.0. The move comes after Japan's Meteorological Agency did the same. US government scientists originally put the Japan quake at 8.9. The change to 9.0 means that the quake was about 1....

Terrifying Videos Show Japan Tsunami

Videos show wave carrying away everything in its path

(Newser) - Videos released over the weekend give a better idea of just how terrifying and destructive the Japan tsunami was. Pat’s Papers points to two in particular, one showing a street-level view of the wave in Kesennuma City, another showing the tsunami slamming into and over Miyako City’s seawall....

Japan Earthquake: How You Can Help

Seven ways to donate and spread awareness

(Newser) - If the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has you feeling helpless, turn to Mashable . The site rounds up seven ways you can do something—even if you’re broke:
  • Like a page: For each person that “likes” the “Dog Bless You” Facebook page for search and rescue
...

2K Bodies Found in Battered Region of Japan

Adds to confirmed quake toll of 1,597

(Newser) - Some 2,000 bodies were found today on the coast of Japan’s Miyagi prefecture, adding to the confirmed quake death toll of 1,597, with 1,481 people confirmed missing. More than 1,000 bodies drifted ashore in the area, and another thousand were found in the town of...

Dog Teams Held Up by Japanese Rules

Frustrated Swiss team waiting, US negotiating

(Newser) - Strict Japanese rules against importing dogs are holding up canine teams that could be critical in rescuing survivors of the nation's massive quake. A Swiss team of 25 handlers and nine dogs has already been delayed, and US officials are negotiating with Japan to speed the movement of search-and-rescue dog...

Second Explosion Rocks Japanese Nuke Plant

Radiation leaked, officials say levels are low

(Newser) - A second hydrogen explosion rocked Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant today as workers scrambled to avert a meltdown disaster. The explosion occurred in a separate unit of the reactor from the one hit by an earlier explosion Saturday. Nuclear agency officials said radiation was leaked, but that levels were low...

Japan Earthquake: Death Toll Estimate Passes 10K, Plus More on Nuclear Emergency
In Japan, Officials Knew Risk of Hydrogen Explosion
plus: death toll could pass 10k
Mar 13, 2011 5:05 PM CDT

In Japan, Officials Knew Risk of Hydrogen Explosion

Plus: Estimated death toll passes 10K, and more from Japan

(Newser) - When officials decided to vent radioactive steam from one of the damaged nuclear power plants in Japan, they knew it could result in a hydrogen explosion. And, even though an explosion is exactly what happened, the decision was still the best option for avoiding a total meltdown, the AP reports...

Japanese Volcano Shinmoedake Erupts
 Japanese Volcano Erupts 
Mar 13, 2011 1:01 PM CDT

Japanese Volcano Erupts

Shinmoedake had been quiet for a few weeks

(Newser) - It's an even better time to not be in Japan: Adding to the country's burgeoning humanitarian crisis after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami, a volcano in the country's south erupted today. The Shinmoedake volcano spewed ash some two and a half miles into the air, its first activity in a...

Japan Declares Emergency at 2nd Nuke Plant

22 people found to be contaminated at Dai-ichi plant

(Newser) - The International Atomic Energy Agency said today that Japan has declared a state of emergency at a second earthquake-ravaged nuclear plant after measuring higher-than-permitted levels of radiation. The IAEA says the source is being investigated, but all three reactors at the Onagawa plant are currently under control. Japan also said...

Risk of Meltdown Grows at Damaged Nuclear Reactors

Japan working to keep at least two from catastrophic failure

(Newser) - Wire services are scrambling to assess the danger surrounding Japan's damaged nuclear reactors, but this much is clear: At least two are in serious trouble, and officials were taking extraordinary measures to avert full-blown meltdowns. Phrases like "possible partial meltdown" ( from AP ) and "assuming the possibility...

Earthquake Moved Japan 8 Feet

Earth's axis also shifted slightly

(Newser) - Some numbers related to the Japan earthquake, from CNN and ABC :
  • 8: Number of feet the coast of Japan moved eastward.
  • 4: Number of inches the Earth's axis shifted.
  • 160: Number of aftershocks in the first 24 hours, most of them with a magnitude of at least 5.0.
  • 59
...

Japan to Distribute Iodine Tablets Near Nuclear Plant

Officials downplay danger, say it's only a precaution

(Newser) - If it's been tough to gauge how much risk is posed by Japan's damaged nuclear plants, it's because officials have given what the New York Times describes as "confusing accounts" of exactly what's going on. Safety officials say the explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant destroyed walls of the...

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