Your World in Photos March 2011
Editor’s choice Mar 25, 2011 12:30 EDT
Inside Fukuyshima 50: Nuclear Plant TEPCO Operator Reports Conditions
A HERO OF THE FUKUSHIMA 50 Fukushima Plant Worker’s Blog Post By Erik Hayden 10:23 AM ET As the world watches the precarious developments at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant, the small band of Tokyo Electric Power Company workers frantically trying to contain the radiation leakage have been hailed as heroes. Today the New…
Massive & Deadly: Radiation level in Fukushima Daiichi plant central control unit 1,000 times normal – Japan Live Broadcast
NUCLEAR CRISIS WIDENS EVACUATION ZONE Radiation leakiing from Japan’s earthquake-crippled nuclear plants on Tusday after multiple explosions and fires, and authorities ordered thousands of people to stay inside homes 20/30 kilometers to protect them from exposure. Emperor addresses nation as nuclear crisis escalates Japan’s emperor gave a rare address to a jittery nation Wednesday as…
Russian Medvedev says No: To Kurils mineral-rich islands despite Japanese protests.
Rocky barriers to Russo-Japanese peace By Kosuke Takahashi TOKYO – Unnecessary provocations by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are being blamed for the reawakening of a decades-old island feud between the countries, with both leaders accused of pandering to nationalism ahead of key elections. Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara landed…