ABC News
| Mar 27, 2013
A Google Street View car has been allowed into an abandoned town in the Fukushima exclusion zone. The images allow a "virtual homecoming" to the town for the 21,000 residents displaced by the tsunami and nuclear meltdown two years ago.
LinkAsia
| Mar 11, 2013
March 11th marks two years since Japan's devastating triple disaster of a massive earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that left 20,000 people dead or missing. LinkAsia's Toshi Maeda reports from Tokyo on how people in Japan are coping today ...
LinkAsia
| Mar 11, 2013
Japanese horror film director Hideo Nakata is best known for films in which characters are killed by an unseen force or haunted by a creepy presence. His newest film takes a different form however. LinkAsia's Nathalie Stucky reports on Nakata's la...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 11, 2013
Japan stands at a crossroads over its reliance on nuclear power as the country marks the second anniversary of one of the world's worst atomic disasters. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that struck Japan's n...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 10, 2013
Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, forests that cover 70 percent of the Fukushima Prefecture have been found to contain high concentrations of radioactive c...
Reuters
| Dec 28, 2012
Japan is recognized around the world for its cutting-edge robotics, but over a year and a half after the Fukushima disaster Japanese robot makers are still struggling to develop robots capable of dealing with the crippled nuclear power plant.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Dec 7, 2012
A 7.3 magnitude quake struck off northeast Japan Friday, shaking buildings as far away as Tokyo for more than a minute and triggering a tsunami alert in Fukushima and other areas devastated by last year's disaster. Two people were badly injured bu...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 13, 2012
The company that operated Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has admitted that it played down safety concerns before the March 2011 Tsunami. The announcement on Friday is the first time the company has acknowledged that the meltdown of three reactor...
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ORF
| Feb 10, 2012
On 11 March 2011, Japan's worst ever natural disaster killed almost 20,000 people. This report reveals the controversy surrounding it and the pain of rebuilding under the fear of radioactivity.
— Nov 30, 2011 at 01:31 pm
...operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File) TOKYO -...
— Dec 16, 2011 at 01:41 pm
...tsunami-devastated Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has reached a stable state of "cold shutdown" and is no longer leaking substantial amo...
— Apr 15 at 03:34 pm
...from the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in the period following the disaster on 11 March 2011. Scientists estimate a 'source te...
The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Fukushima Dai-ichi, is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 3.5-square-kilometre site in the towns of Okuma and Futaba in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. First commissioned in 1971, the plant consists of six boiling water reactors. These light water reactors drove electrical generators with a combined power of 4.7 GWe, making Fukushima Daiichi one of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world. Fukushima I was the first nuclear plant to be designed, constructed and run in conjunction with General Electric, Boise, and Tokyo Electric Power Company.
The plant suffered major damage from the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. The incident permanently damaged some reactors making it technically impossible to restart the reactors, and the other reactors are politically impossible to reopen. The earthquake and tsunami disabled the reactor cooling systems, leading to releases of radioactivity and triggering a 30 km evacuation zone surrounding the plant. On April 20, 2011, the Japanese authorities declared the 20 km evacuation zone a no-go area which may only be entered under government supervision.
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