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Northern Japan (145)   Radiation (24)   Radioactive Water (4)   Japan Tsunami Recent Summary.     Click for More > No news/event found 2011 Sendai Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan on Google Map 1. 2013-03-10 Japan marks quake and tsunami anniversary Fukushima, Northern Japan 2. 2013-03-10 Japan quake 'heard at edge of space' Japan 3. 2013-02-28 Report outlines Fukushima's radiation toll Fukushima, Japan 4. 2012-10-31 Japan tsunami money 'misspent' Japan 5. 2012-10-26 Fish off Fukushima still contaminated Fukushima, Northern Japan 6. 2012-08-22 Record radiation found in fish near Fukushima Fukushima, Northern Japan 7. 2012-07-21 Japan to probe Tepco 'cover-up' Fukushima, Northern Japan 8. 2012-07-04 Parliament releases Fukushima probe report Fukushima, Japan 9. 2012-06-15 Japan PM orders reactor restart Fukushima, Japan      * Time by Topic * Time by Location * Location by Topic Sendai Earthquake, Time by Topic Time Environmental Earthquake Business Politics 2013 Report outlines Fukushima's radiation toll Your ad is here Your ad is here Your ad is here October 2012 Your ad is here Japan tsunami money 'misspent' Your ad is here Japan tsunami money 'misspent' July 2012 Japan to probe Tepco 'cover-up' Your ad is here Your ad is here Japan to probe Tepco 'cover-up' Parliament releases Fukushima probe report June 2012 Your ad is here Your ad is here Japan PM orders reactor restart Japan PM orders reactor restart April 2012 Your ad is here US Coast Guard sinks tsunami 'ghost ship' Your ad is here Your ad is here March 2012 Your ad is here Japan marks deadly anniversary Your ad is here Japan marks deadly anniversary 2011 Japan declares Fukushima stable Japan radiation 'unsafe for farming' Workers enter Fukushima reactor Reactors could take 9 months to stop Japan disaster now on Chernobyl level Japan raises nuclear crisis level Water radiation millions of times over limit Radioactive water leak stopped Japan dumps radioactive water in sea Workers scramble to prevent water leak Radioactive water found outside plant Sea radiation 1,250 times normal Reactor core might be leaking Food products limited from nuclear area Japan raises threat level at nuclear plant Water dumped on Japan nuclear plant New fire fuels nuclear fears in Japan Meltdown alert at Japan reactor Earthquake hits off Japan coast Japan quake sparks tsunami alert New quake triggers tsunami warning Japan quake prompts tsunami alert Rescue in Japan as 2 pulled from rubble New blast at Japan nuclear plant Explosion at Japan nuclear plant PM: Japan crisis 'worst since WWII' Exodus from Japan nuclear plant 3,000 rescued; many more missing Japan scrambles to reach trapped victims Massive quake, tsunami hit Japan Huge blast at nuclear power plant Radioactive fears rise at Japan plants Ohi nuclear reactor shuts down after fault Germany pledges nuclear shutdown Japan economy back in recession Power restored to reactor's control room Food products limited from nuclear area Power hopes rise at Japan plant Japan's Prime Minister Kan quits Prime minister survives no-confidence vote Japan announces emergency budget PM: Japan crisis 'worst since WWII'      * Time by Topic * Time by Location * Location by Topic

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2012 Mar.25   Japan shuts down nuclear reactor  Japan has shut down another power station, bringing it a step closer to abandoning atomic energy for the time being, following the Fukushima disaster 2012 Mar.10     Japan marks deadly anniversary   Japan is set to mark the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami which struck the north-eastern coast, killing thousands 2012 Feb.13   Stricken Fukushima nuclear plant 'heating up'  A faulty thermometer is likely to blame for rising temperatures inside a stricken nuclear reactor at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant 2012 Jan.30   Japan's nuclear 'stress tests' get OK  U.N. nuclear experts gave a thumbs-up to planned 'stress tests' for remaining nuclear power plants 2012 Jan.19   Radioactive material used in construction  Gravel quarried inside Fukushima zone has turned up in construction projects in Nihonmatsu, including an elementary school and a condominium

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2011 Dec.15     Japan declares Fukushima stable   Engineers have brought the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to a 'cold shutdown condition', nine months after the earthquake and tsunami 2011 Dec.5   Radioactive water leaking at Fukushima  Workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility have discovered a leak of 45 metric tons of radioactive water 2011 Nov.18   New radiation scare for rice in Japan  Authorities have halted the shipment of rice from some farms northwest of the nuclear plant after finding higher-than-allowed levels of cesium 2011 Nov.14   Japan radiation 'unsafe for farming'  New research has found that radioactive material in parts of north-eastern Japan exceeds levels considered safe for farming

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  A powerful 7.4 earthquake struck Japan, triggering a tsunami warning for one prefecture and advisories in others 2011 Apr.5   Radioactive water leak stopped Map of Fukushima Japan  The leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has stopped   Water radiation millions of times over limit

An attempt to plug a leak of highly radioactive water from a nuclear reactor has shown a significant difference, despite the material not setting  Tokyo Electric: an attempt to plug the leak had shown a 'significant difference,' despite the material not setting as hoped. The company had injected a silica-based polymer, 'liquid glass' to reduce the leak

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2011 Apr.4   Radiation tests in Japan schools  Officials in the Fukushima region of Japan start an emergency programme to measure radiation levels in school playgrounds.   Japan dumps radioactive water in sea   Workers at quake-hit nuclear plant dump water with low levels of contamination into the sea so more highly radioactive water can be stored 2011 Apr.3   Japan business sentiment to worsen  Japan's big manufacturers expect conditions to worsen in the coming three months   Fukushima workers' bodies found  The bodies of two workers killed by the 11 March tsunami are found in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, as work continues to seal a leak 2011 Mar.31   Warning on Japan evacuation zone  UN nuclear monitors have advised Japan to consider expanding the evacuation zone around the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant 2011 Mar.30   Japan to scrap stricken reactors  Japan is to decommission four stricken reactors at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant 2011 Mar.29   Workers scramble to prevent water leak  Workers at crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant faced a difficult balancing act as they struggled to keep reactors coo 2011 Mar.28   New radiation leak at Japan plant  Highly radioactive water has been found for the first time outside one of the reactor buildings at quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant   Radioactive water found outside plant Map of Fukushima Japan

Water found in a tunnel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has alarmingly high radiation readings

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2011 Mar.27   Japan quake prompts tsunami alert  Another earthquake off the north-east coast, east of the badly-damaged port city of Sendai, has shaken the already devastated region   Japan radiation report 'mistaken'  The operators of a stricken Japanese nuclear plant apologise for a "mistake" in reporting a radiation spike 10 million times above normal 2011 Mar.26   Sea radiation 1,250 times normal  Levels of radioactive iodine in seawater just offshore of the Fukushima nuclear plant spiked to more than 1,250 times higher than normal 2011 Mar.25   Reactor core might be leaking Map of Fukushima Japan  Authorities raised the prospect of a likely breach in the all-important containment vessel of the No. 3 reactor at the stricken nuclear power plant 2011 Mar.24   Plant workers' radiation exposure high  The water that 3 men were exposed while working at the Fukushima Daiichi had 10,000 times the amount of radiation typical for that location 2011 Mar.23   Japan nuclear plant work resumes  Engineers have resumed work to restore the cooling system of reactor 3 at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant   Tokyo tap water not safe for infants  Tokyo's government found that radioactive material in tap water had exceeded the limit considered safe for infants 2011 Mar.22   Power restored to reactor's control room   Health Ministry reported finding radioactive materials at levels 'drastically exceeding' limits in 11 types of vegetable grown in Fukushima Prefecture   Japan tests food, seawater for radiation  Japanese officials' concerns over food contamination expanded beyond the country's borders as tests detected radiation in ocean water offshore 2011 Mar.21   Work resumes at Japanese reactor  Efforts resume to restore power and cool damaged reactors at Fukushima nuclear reactor, despite smoke and steam rising from the plant   Hope dwindles as death toll mounts  Survivors sift through evacuation center and hospital. Officials said they still had not accounted for 13,262 people 2011 Mar.20   Cooling efforts at nuclear reactor  Crews resumed spraying water at the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility. Workers have begun to see some success   Food products limited from nuclear area Map of Fukushima Japan  Japan slapped restrictions on some food produced in two provinces around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant   Rescue in Japan as 2 pulled from rubble   A grandmother and her teenage grandson were rescued 9 days after they became trapped in their home following the earthquake and tsunami   Japan warns on quake deaths rise  Japanese police say 15,000 people may have died in one prefecture alone, as efforts to tackle the Fukushima nuclear crisis go on 2011 Mar.19   Power hopes rise at Japan plant  Workers are close to restoring power to cooling systems at a quake-hit Japanese nuclear power Fukushima Daiichi plant 2011 Mar.18   Nuclear plant's power restoration closer  Efforts accelerated to restore power to reactors' cooling systems at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant   Japan raises threat level at nuclear plant   Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised the level for the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Friday from a 4 to 5

Some workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant have already been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts

2011 Mar.17   Japan nuclear plant progress slow  Emergency workers are battling to cool and restore power to reactors at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant   Cable reaches Japan nuclear plant  Engineers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have managed to lay a cable to reactor 2, the UN's nuclear watchdog reports 2011 Mar.16   Water dumped on Japan nuclear plant   Helicopters dumped water on and near the Nos. 3 and 4 units at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to halt the nuclear accident   US alarm over Japan atomic crisis  Increasing alarm has been voiced in the US about the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan   Japan's emperor: Don't give up hope  Thousands of Japanese filled evacuation shelters or joined foreigners seeking a way out of the country in the aftermath of last week's earthquake 2011 Mar.15   New fire fuels nuclear fears in Japan   A new blaze at the damaged nuclear plant is adding to radiation fears in a country racing to avoid a full-on nuclear crisis   Staff withdrawn from Japan plant  A spike in radiation levels at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has forced workers to suspend their operation 2011 Mar.14   Radiation fears after Japan blast  Explosions at a Japanese quake-stricken nuclear plant have led to radiation levels that can affect human health

Prime Minister Naoto Kan has urged those living within 30km of the plant to stay indoors

  New blast at Japan nuclear plant  A quake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan has been hit by a third explosion in four days, amid fears of a meltdown   Meltdown alert at Japan reactor Map of Fukushima Japan

Technicians are battling to stabilise a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant, which has been rocked by a second blast in three days.

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2011 Mar.13   Explosion at Japan nuclear plant  A second explosion has hit the nuclear plant in Japan that was damaged in Friday's earthquake, but it had resisted the blast   PM: Japan crisis 'worst since WWII'  Naoto Kan has said Japan is experiencing its greatest hardships since World War II as it tackles the aftermath of an earthquake, tsunami

The situation at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant remained grave

2011 Mar.12   Fears for second Japanese reactor  Technicians are battling to lower pressure in a second nuclear reactor at quake-hit Fukushima power plant where radiation levels are rising   Exodus from Japan nuclear plant   An estimated 170,000 people have been evacuated from the area around a quake-damaged nuclear power station hat was hit by an explosion   3,000 rescued; many more missing  A meltdown may be occurring at one of the reactors at a damaged nuclear power plant; rescuers are frantically scrambling to find survivors   Japan scrambles to reach trapped victims  Rescuers plucked dazed survivors from collapsed homes, muddy waters and raging fires Saturday, a day after a powerful earthquake 2011 Mar.11   Huge blast at nuclear power plant   A massive explosion has struck a Japanese nuclear power plant after devastating earthquake. Officials fear a meltdown at one of the reactors

A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant and several workers were injured

  Radioactive fears rise at Japan plants  Reactors at two Japanese power plants can no longer cool radioactive substances; a small leak had been detected at one of the facilities   Massive quake, tsunami hit Japan Map of Sendai Japan

A 8.9 earthquakeis causing a tsunami that swept debris miles inland. Dozens of nations, including the U.S., are under a tsunami warning  The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in 100 years unleashed walls of water that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats, killing hundreds and forcing the evaucations of tens of thousands

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