Even as the Japanese authorities began distributing bottled water for the estimated 80,000 children less than a year old in the Tokyo area, city authorities said Thursday that levels of a radioactive isotope found in water samples from one purification plant had fallen by more than half in the last 24 hours, now testing below the country
Japanese workers scrambled hard today to restore power at the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant as smoke rose from two of its reactors in the tsunami-hit northeast, which was jolted by a series of new powerful quakes, including two measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale.
Authorities sought the help of the US military in tackling the
Faint traces of very low levels of radiation from the stricken nuclear complex in Japan have been detected in Sacramento, European officials reported on Friday, bringing the distant atomic crisis to American shores for the first time.
The readings, picked up by highly sensitive detectors set up to monitor clandestine nuclear blasts, were the first solid evidence of the leading edge of a lon
While the radiation levels exceeded the limits allowed by the govt, an official said that the products `pose no immediate health risk' and more testing was being done on other foods.
Japan said radia March 19: Japan said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits, as emergency teams scrambled on Saturday to restore p
Nuclear experts in India are watching the surging nuke leak levels spinning out of control in Japan with a growing sense of dismay.
Tokyo Electric has gone public to admit that five of their workers have died since the quake with another 22 injured for "various reasons" though they have not elaborated what these are.
Another worker was hospitalised after holding his chest in pain and complai
A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late on Friday.
Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health
If in the nuclear reactors in Japan, a sizeable core-melt occurs, it could give rise to explosive metal-water reactions, which could disintegrate the reactor core, disperse radioactive substances, and breach the ultimate containment.
When that happens, dangerous species of radioactive fission products in the gaseous and micro-dust and droplet form could spread over large areas, depending on win
