Fukushima

Vehicles contaminated with Fukushima disaster radiation back on the market

By: Staff report 10/27/11 10:01 PM

Used cars contaminated by radiation from the tsunami-caused meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant are being sold in Japan. Unscrupulous auto dealers reregister them with new license plates. The vehicles were supposed to be destroyed and they cannot be exported because of beefed-up inspections at the buyer nations. One contaminated van resold in Japan was found to emit 110 microsieverts of radiation an hour — the legal limit is only 0.3 microsieverts per hour. Read More

Cover-up: Japanese nuclear reactor broke down before tsunami

By: Examiner Staff 07/04/11 10:09 PM

WHAT: Workers at Japan’s 40-year-old Fukushima nuclear power plant are now coming forward with eyewitness accounts contradicting the official government version of the triple reactor meltdown.HOW: The whistle-blowers say Fukushima’s cooling and recirculation pipes broke apart and at least one reactor cracked after the earthquake — not after the “unique, unforeseeable” tsunami that struck 40 minutes later. Read More

Information on crippled nuclear plant trickled out

By: 04/12/11 6:46 PM

Japanese officials struggled to explain why it took them a month to disclose large-scale leakage of radioactivity from a crippled nuclear power plant after a disastrous mid-March earthquake and tsunami. The government increased its rating of the severity of the Fukushima nuclear accident from 5 to 7, the worst on an international scale. Read More

Emerging Disaster

By: Nate Beeler 03/16/11 10:23 PM

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Japan’s global economic impact

By: Nicole Gelinas 03/16/11 9:12 PM

Japan’s horror is still unfolding. The world’s attention remains stuck on the effort to reduce public danger from the Fukushima nuclear reactors. Against the backdrop of acute crisis, longer-term impacts are insignificant. But they are real — and they pose challenges to the West’s recovery from recession, even as they remind us how important a robust recovery is. Read More