via email Japan will replace three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy, the minister overseeing energy policy said on Thursday, five months after the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years erupted at Fukushima. The move comes as Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls for enhanced nuclear safety accountability and an overhaul of Japan’s … Read More
Jul 302011
Over 130 head of cattle shipped to market in Japan have been found to be highly-radioactive. Sewage in Tokyo has also tested radioactive and since sludge is used in the manufacture of construction materials, a whole lot of it is not being processed and is currently being stored beneath tarps, until officials can figure out what to … Read More
This megathrust earthquake’s hypocenter was reported to be off the Oshika Peninsula, the east coast of Tōhoku. It was the strongest to hit Japan and one of the top five largest earthquakes in the world since seismological record-keeping began. It was followed by a tsunami with waves of up to 10 m (33 ft). The disaster … Read More


