Smoke and steam rose from two of the most threatening reactors at Japan’s quake-crippled nuclear plant on Tuesday.
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.
Within a year its economy could be booming while international markets finance the recovery.
Japanese engineers toiled frantically to avert a catastrophic release of radiation from a crippled nuclear power plant north of Tokyo on Friday.
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.
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.
Growing up in this small fishing town on Japan’s north-eastern coast, 16-year-old Minami Sato never took the annual tsunami drills seriously.
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.
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.
Survivors of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami huddled in shelters and hoarded supplies on Saturday as rescue workers searched a mangled coastline.