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Meltdown intel emerges ahead of Japan anniversary

Mar 10, 2012 (AFP)

Japan was Saturday preparing to mark the first anniversary of its tsunami, as government papers revealed ministers were warned of the possibility of meltdowns a...

Nothing stirs in Japan's nuclear ghost town

Mar 10, 2012 (AFP)

They used to raise premium beef cattle in Iitate. But a year after Japan's nuclear disaster it is an irradiated ghost town and those who used to call it home ha...

One Year after Fukushima

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

The Fukushima disaster happened one year ago - the impacts are not over yet, neither in Japan nor in Germany. Immediately after the reactor accident became know...

GIS siting of emergency vehicles improves response time

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

In an emergency, minutes matter. With this knowledge, University of Georgia researchers developed a new method for determining where emergency vehicle stations ...

Researchers harness Kraken to model explosions via transport

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

First, the bad news: all across America, trucks and tractor-trailers are transporting industrial explosives on nearly every artery of the country's interstate a...

Thai PM in Japan vows no more flood chaos

Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday pledged floods would never again disrupt business in the kingdom as she sought to reassure investors during...

Fires brought 'under control' in Congo munitions depot: army

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

Fires that have raged since Sunday's deadly explosion at a munitions depot in Brazzaville have been brought under control, the Republic of Congo's military said...

Fukushima refugees still in limbo one year on

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

A year after being forced to abandon homes and businesses in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant, tens of thousands of refugees are still in limbo, unable...

Disasters cost $380 billion in 2011, says UN

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Disasters led by the Japan earthquake cost the world a record figure of more than $380 billion last year, a UN official said Monday. While countries are managin...

Japanese monk guards remains of tsunami unknown

Mar 03, 2012 (AFP)

Hundreds of the 19,000 people killed by Japan's horrific quake-tsunami remain unmourned, their bodies never claimed because there is no one left to notice they ...

Radiation fears haunt Japanese food shoppers

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

For Japanese shoppers, food safety was taken for granted until the Fukushima crisis. Now many have lost faith in government guarantees and fear that radiation c...

Fears for safety at Fukushima one year on

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

To some of the men who earn as little as $100 a day to work inside Japan's Fukushima Daiichi, the plant at the centre of a year-old nuclear disaster is far from...

Japan's tsunami victims: healed but still scarred

Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)

A year ago, a desperate young mother stood amid the ruins of her devastated city wrapped in a blanket as she scoured tsunami wreckage for her missing son. Twelv...

Flood-hit Japanese firms may quit Thailand: survey

Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)

Almost one in 10 Japanese manufacturers with operations in Thailand plans to relocate out of the kingdom after last year's devastating floods, a survey showed W...

Japan's nuclear disaster: a timeline

Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)

As Japan readies to mark the first anniversary of the quake-tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, here are key developments in the wo...

One year on, 'ghosts' stalk Japan's tsunami city

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

A year after whole neighbourhoods full of people were killed by the Japanese tsunami, rumours of ghosts swirl in Ishinomaki as the city struggles to come to ter...

China chemical plant blast kills 13

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

An explosion ripped through a north China chemical factory Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 43, the government said of the latest industrial acc...

Japan feared Fukushima could 'finish' Tokyo: panel

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

A worst-case scenario sketched out by the Japanese government foresaw the end of Tokyo in a chain of nuclear explosions that would mean evacuating the city, an ...

Fukushima contamination 'chronic and lasting': French agency

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

Radioactive contamination levels from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have fallen sharply since the accident but will be "chronic and lasting" for many...

15 tourists killed in China bus plunge

Feb 26, 2012 (AFP)

Fifteen tourists were killed and another 19 injured when their bus plunged into a ravine, Chinese authorities said -- the latest deadly accident on the nation's...