Members of the Japan Self-Defense Force remove debris as they search for victims in a damaged house at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, April 21, 2011. By Linda Sieg and Kazunori Takada TOKYO ...
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard reiterated Friday that her government doesn't see any place for nuclear power in the country's energy policy, and that a review of global nuclear safety is needed in the wake of the crisis at ...
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Uranium prices have slumped. In the wake of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the price of a pound of uranium on international markets has tumbled all the way down to about ...
Naoto Kan said, "We will move up the plan, and the country is making the utmost effort to first, contain the nuclear plant."
BEIJING, April 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Japan has announced a ban on entering the 20-kilometer evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, faced the anger of people forced to leave their homes when ...
Americans love fiction. And with enough effort, we can come to believe that fiction is fact. Take nuclear power. Even with radioactive releases from the quake- and tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan turning from a trickle to a tide ...
Some spooky scenes today as residents took advantage of a two-hour window to visit their homes. AP Police officers man a checkpoint close to a no-go zone at Minami Soma, Fukushima prefecture, as vehicles with residents pass by to evacuate or go back to ...
Roughly six weeks have passed since the horrific events of March 11th unfolded in the Tohoku area of Japan. The total number of deaths and those still unaccounted for has now surpassed 28000 and tens of thousands of people remain in makeshift shelters ...
Today the Japanese government took steps to prevent people from re-entering the 20km exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The new measure, announced by chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano, makes it illegal for ...
The accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has cast a pall over the outlook for Japanese nuclear energy companies' plans to find new revenue sources in overseas markets. NRG Energy Inc., a major US energy supplier, said April 19 that it ...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 rocked eastern and northeastern Japan on Thursday night, registering lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Chiba Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. ...
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Thursday that areas within 20 kilometers of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant would be made a no-entry zone at midnight on Thursday. Residents within the 20-kilometer zone have already been instructed to evacuate, ...
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