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Japan's battle for Fukushima is far from over, one month on
Source: Guardian UK
Radiation, aftershocks, fire, a tsunami evacuation, and hours and hours of difficult, dangerous labour trying to do what nobody in history has done before: prevent four doomed nuclear reactors from a catastrophic meltdown.
Today was a typically extraordinary day at work for the several hundred engineers, contract employees and emergency personnel at Tokyo Electric's Daiichi power plant, where standards of normality have shifted along with tectonic plates since a magnitude nine earthquake struck offshore just over a month ago.
Stranded and alone: The 75-year-old man found ALIVE at his devastated farmhouse four weeks after Japan earthquake and tsunami
Source: Daily Mail UK
He must have wondered whether he would ever be found. However, farmer Kunio Shiga was discovered alive and well - and sitting among the debris of his home - more than four weeks after an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan.
The 75-year-old was found with only a battery-powered radio for company, holed up in his small farmhouse which was surrounded by fallen trees, dead pigs and debris from the deadly tsunami on March 11.
Japanese Workers Braved Radiation for a Temp Job
Source: NY Times
KAZO, Japan — The ground started to buck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Masayuki Ishizawa could scarcely stay on his feet. Helmet in hand, he ran from a workers’ standby room outside the plant’s No. 3 reactor, near where he and a group of workers had been doing repair work. He saw a chimney and crane swaying like weeds. Everybody was shouting in a panic, he recalled.
Mr. Ishizawa, 55, raced to the plant’s central gate. But a security guard would not let him out of the complex. A long line of cars had formed at the gate, and some drivers were blaring their horns. “Show me your IDs,” Mr. Ishizawa remembered the guard saying, insisting that he follow the correct sign-out procedure. And where, the guard demanded, were his supervisors?
Jog With Actor Josh Duhamel for Japan
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| Josh Duhamel |
Source: AOL News
It's the description of the best charity event ever: a sunny day on the beach in Santa Monica. With movie star Josh Duhamel. Who might even take his shirt off.
Alas, it's not a charity event geared toward moms but one for kids. The "Transformers" star is inviting runners to bring their kids and participate in his two-mile Youth Run 4 Japan on Sunday to raise money for the American Red Cross' relief efforts in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Japan: Huge Radiation Spike at Nuclear Plant Was a Mistake
Source: AOL News
TOKYO -- Emergency workers struggling to pump contaminated water from Japan's stricken nuclear complex fled from one of the troubled reactors Sunday after reporting a huge increase in radioactivity -- a spike that officials later apologetically said was inaccurate.
The apology came after employees fled the complex's Unit 2 reactor when a reading showed radiation levels had reached 10 million times higher than normal in the reactor's cooling system. Officials said they were so high that the worker taking the measurements had withdrawn before taking a second reading.
TOKYO -- Emergency workers struggling to pump contaminated water from Japan's stricken nuclear complex fled from one of the troubled reactors Sunday after reporting a huge increase in radioactivity -- a spike that officials later apologetically said was inaccurate.
The apology came after employees fled the complex's Unit 2 reactor when a reading showed radiation levels had reached 10 million times higher than normal in the reactor's cooling system. Officials said they were so high that the worker taking the measurements had withdrawn before taking a second reading.
Death toll rising
Number of confirmed deaths rose to 8,805, while 12,664 remain missing, the National Police Agency of Japan said. An additional 2,628 people were classified as injured.
Nuclear Plant's Fuel Rods Damaged, Leaking Into Sea
Source: Bloomberg
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said fuel rods at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant have been damaged, releasing five kinds of radioactive material and contaminating seawater nearby.
The acknowledgements from the utility indicate poisons emanating from the plant may be spreading through the air and sea, raising concern over the safety of seafood from the coast of northeastern Japan and agriculture in the region.
The decay of radioactive fuel rods, composed of uranium and plutonium, was suspected by company officials five days after the March 11 magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami off the main island of Honshu.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said fuel rods at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant have been damaged, releasing five kinds of radioactive material and contaminating seawater nearby.
The acknowledgements from the utility indicate poisons emanating from the plant may be spreading through the air and sea, raising concern over the safety of seafood from the coast of northeastern Japan and agriculture in the region.
The decay of radioactive fuel rods, composed of uranium and plutonium, was suspected by company officials five days after the March 11 magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami off the main island of Honshu.
Boy of nine searching for family with a homemade sign
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| Still hoping: Toshihito Aisawa holding his sign. |
Source: Daily Mail UK
He has become a poignant symbol of the human tragedy in Japan.
Day after day, nine-year-old Toshihito Aisawa walks from shelter to shelter looking for his family.
Clutching hand-written signs bearing the names of his missing relatives, the schoolboy has spent the past week wandering the corridors of refugee centres in his ruined home city of Ishinomaki.
The boy last saw his mother, father and grandmother when they piled into their car in a desperate attempt to escape the tsunami.
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