The WHO said on Monday that radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was more serious than previously thought.
Driving rain on Monday disrupted rescue efforts in Japan and compounded the misery of disaster survivors now fearing radioactive fallout.
Japan hoped power restored to its stricken nuclear plant may help solve the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.
Japan is considering whether to halt sales of food products from near a crippled nuclear plant because of contamination by a radioactive element.
The nuclear threat makes assessment of the earthquake’s economic impact difficult.
Within a year its economy could be booming while international markets finance the recovery.
Japan’s humanitarian crisis has intensified, with relief workers being hampered by freezing temperatures and snowfalls.
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In the aftermath of the earthquake and the tsunami, Japan is facing the most important nuclear accident worldwide since 1986.
Japanese engineers worked through the night to lay a 1,5km electricity cable to a crippled nuclear power plant in the hope of restarting pumps.
Japan’s ambassador to South Africa, Toshiro Ozawa, on Wednesday thanked South Africans for their condolences.
Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm.
Concern over Japan’s ability to contain its nuclear crisis grew on Thursday, as military helicopters dumped water on to an overheating power plant.
The UN atomic energy chief said he plans to fly to Japan on Thursday to seek first-hand information of what he called a "very serious" situation.
Japan’s nuclear crisis deepened on Wednesday with another fire at a quake-hit atomic power plant and a radiation spike.
Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged.
Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after a nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating towards Tokyo.
A widening cloud of radiation on Tuesday added to the misery of millions of people in Japan’s devastated north-east.
Government regulators knew of a heightened risk of explosion in the type of nuclear reactors used at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
Prices for key technology components spiked as the toll on Japan’s infrastructure mounted after Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Japan scrambled to avert a meltdown at a nuclear plant on Monday after a hydrogen explosion at one reactor and exposure of fuel rods at another.
Shares in Japanese manufacturers tumbled in the aftermath of Friday’s earthquake, as companies struggled to gather information from the stricken area.
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A hydrogen explosion rocked the earthquake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan where authorities have been working desperately to avert a meltdown.
The death toll in Japan’s earthquake and tsunami will probably exceed 10 000 in one state alone, an official said on Sunday.
Japan faced a fresh radiation threat at an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant on Sunday after the cooling system failed at a second reactor.
An airplane lies in splintered wood from homes in the city of Sendai. About an hour’s drive away, workers in white masks scan people for radiation.
Survivors of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami huddled in shelters and hoarded supplies on Saturday as rescue workers searched a mangled coastline.
Radiation leaked from a Japanese nuclear reactor north of Tokyo on Saturday, after an explosion blew the roof off the facility.
Japan scrambled on Saturday to avert a disastrous meltdown at a nuclear plant damaged when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the coast.
Japan scrambled on Saturday to reduce pressure in two nuclear plants damaged after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck its north-east coast.