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Tokyo, March 15 : The fourth reactor in Fukushima nuclear poer plant has caught fire, reported Yukio Edano, the government’s chief spokesman. Edano said the number four unit had caught fire. “There are no fuel rods in there but it still contains spent fuel rods”, he said (The unit was under renovation at the time [...]
Jakarta, March 14 : Concrete sea walls built along at least 40 per cent of Japan’s 22,000 mile coastline failed to provide protection during Friday’s devastating tsunami, writes Norimitsu Onishi for The New York Times.The concrete seawalls, breakwaters or other structures were meant to protect Japan against high waves, typhoons or even tsunamis. While experts [...]
London, March 14: The Daily Mail, London has posted a terrifying amateur video showing the explosive power of the tsunami that hit Japan on Friday. The amateur video shows ships being washed onto a highway as the huge surge of water breaches a sea wall in Miyako City, north east Japan. Cars and buildings are [...]
New York, March 15 : The difference between a partial meltdown and a full meltdown at a nuclear plant is enormous, both in the degree of damage and in the potential release of radiation, experts in nuclear power said, reports New York Times. A partial meltdown, like those suspected at two reactors in Japan over [...]
Tokyo, Mar 14: An explosion shook a quake-damaged Japanese nuclear power plant today and plumes of smoke rose from the building, live television showed. Japan’s nuclear safety agency said the blast, at the number 3 reactor at the Fukushima No 1 plant, was believed to be caused by hydrogen. “We believe it was a hydrogen [...]
Tokyo, Mar 15: A huge explosion hit another reactor at an earthquake-damaged Japanese nuclear power plant early today, the third blast since Saturday, the plant operator said. “There was a huge explosion” between 6:00 am (2100 GMT Monday) and 6:15 am at the number-two reactor of Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant, a Tokyo Electric [...]
Japan today warned of another explosion at Fukushima plant as it battled hard to avert multiple meltdowns at two of its nuclear reactors damaged by the devastating tsunami triggered earthquake amid fears of the toll exceeding 10,000 in the ravaged northeastern coast. As Japanese authorities scrambled to control overheating reactors and fresh radiation threats at [...]
The death toll in Japan’s earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone, an official said Sunday, as millions of survivors were left without drinking water, electricity and proper food along the pulverized northeastern coast. Although the government doubled the number of soldiers deployed in the aid effort to 100,000, it seemed [...]
The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that shook Japan on Friday released energy equivalent to 336 megatons of TNT explosive, says a media report. This earthquake is also the seventh largest in the known history of the earthquakes, says Dr J G Negi, founder director general, Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar.He said that Japanese coast had tsunami [...]
Tokyo, March 13 : Japan’s industrial heartland was saved from the heaviest blows of earthquake and tsunami on Friday, reports The New York Times. The report says, the epicenter was in and around the coastal city of Sendai, nearly 200 miles northeast of Tokyo, the nation’s population center, and well north of Japan’s primary manufacturing [...]
