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Failure of Imagination Can Be Deadly: Fukushima is a Warning

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The extent of the damage at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear facility is still unknown, but comparisons to Chernobyl were inevitable as soon as fuel rods became exposed and an explosion rocked the site .

Beware the fear of Nuclear….FEAR!

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It is frightening to watch what’s going on with Japan’s nuclear plant at Fukushima. It is also worrying to watch the fear racing around the world as a result of those events, fear that in some cases is far in excess of what’s going on, or even the worst case scenarios of what might happen

The essential lesson from the Japan earthquake for the U.S.

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Q&A-Dangers posed by Japan’s quake-hit atom plant

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Health risk from Japan reactor seems quite low-WHO

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GENEVA, March 12 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation(WHO) said on Saturday that the public health risk from Japan's [More]

Japan radiation leak evokes U.S. Three Mile Island

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* Radiation echoes Three Mile Island, but no meltdown yet * Stricken reactor dates from 1970s, newer models "safer" [More]

Wind blows south-to-north at quake-hit Japan nuclear plant

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TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - The wind at a nuclear plant inJapan that is leaking radiation is blowing from the south, which [More]

Radiation leaking from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear plant

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* Report that nuclear building's outer structure blown off * Gov't says radiation level low, major leakage not expected [More]

A mother 35 times: elderly albatross is still laying eggs

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A Visual Tour of the Massive Earthquake and Tsunami That Hit Japan [Slide Show]

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At 2:46 pm local time March 11, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Sendai, a port city of one million residents in northeastern Japan. It was the largest earthquake recorded in Japan in the last century.

The Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

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On March 11, a powerful, 8.9-magnitude quake hit northeast Japan, triggering a tsunami with 10-meter-high waves that reached the U.S. West Coast.

The spread of the tsunami from Japan across the Pacific [Video]

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The National Ocanic and Atmospheric Administration released this video showing the spread of the tsunami generated by a magnitude 8.9 quake off Sendai, Japan, on March 11. [More]

Worldwide Monitoring Network Allows for Rapid Tsunami Warnings

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At 2:46 P.M. Tokyo time, one of the largest earthquakes of the past century hit just off the coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan. The 8.9-magnitude quake stirred up massive tsunami waves that battered coastal cities, especially along the east coast north of Tokyo.

How to Cool a Nuclear Reactor

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The 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan is causing problems for at least one of its fleet of nuclear reactors--and authorities have shut down 10 of the country's 55 units.