Monday, March 14, 2011

Japan In Crisis -- News Updates March 14, 2011



Japan's Nuclear Crisis Widens -- L.A. Times

Reporting from Sendai, Japan, and Tokyo: A fresh explosion rocked a crippled nuclear complex as rescuers from around the world converged on Japan's devastated earthquake zone, searching for survivors and ministering to the sick and hungry. With the death toll from the largest quake in Japan's recorded history expected to ultimately reach the tens of thousands, more than a half-million people have been displaced by growing radiation fears and the massive swath of destruction.

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More News On The Disaster In Japan

Live Blog: Disaster in Japan -- Wall Street Journal
Live Feed: Japan earthquake -- Reuters

Official: Rods likely melting in Japanese reactors -- Yahoo News/AP
Tide of 1,000 bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan -- Yahoo News/AP
Japan quake-tsunami death toll likely over 10,000 -- Yahoo News/AP
Japan reels as second blast rocks nuclear plant -- Yahoo News/AFP

Steel walls all that stand between Japan and nuclear crisis -- Reuters
Meltdown alert at Japan reactor -- BBC
Japan Nuclear Plant Troubles Deepen -- Wall Street Journal
Nuclear fuel rods fully exposed at Japan reactor - Jiji -- Reuters
Fuel rods at stricken Japan reactor exposed again - media -- Reuters
Troubles Mount at Quake-Stricken Japanese Nuclear Reactor -- Voice of America
Tokyo Electric sees rise in radiation at Fukushima Daini plant -- Reuters
Japan races to contain meltdowns after two blasts; third reactor loses cooling capacity -- Washington Post
Japan battles nuclear meltdown -- Financial Times
Japan says major explosion unlikely at nuke plant -- AFP
Ultimate impact of damage to Japan nuclear reactors still unknown -- Washington Post
Second Blast at Japanese Plant Raises Fears of Meltdown -- Time
Japan distributes iodine to evacuation centres--IAEA -- Reuters
What is causing the explosions in Japan's nuclear power plants? -- Vancouver Sun

Japan earthquake: Footage of moment tsunami hit -- BBC
Japan earthquake: Fears and shortages in stricken Tokyo -- BBC
Japan's disaster compounded by dwindling supplies for survivors, nuclear emergency -- Washington Post
Japan disaster: key developments -- CBC
Reeling from earthquake & tsunami, Japan facing crises at three nuclear plants and yet another quake -- New York Daily News
In Japan, the search for life yields death and devastation -- Globe And Mail
Grim recovery effort along Japan's coast -- L.A. Times
20,000 missing in 2 towns / Magnitude of Friday's quake revised upward to 9.0 -- Daily Yomiuri
As many as 2,000 bodies found as Japan crisis worsens -- CTV News
Tide of bodies overwhelms Japan -- Press Association
Japan struggles with scale of death -- The Independent

Sony Suspends Operation Of 7 Plants In Japan; Evaluates Earthquake Impact
-- RTT News
Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged Undersea Cables -- Wall Street Journal
Wall Street slides on Japan economy, nuclear fears -- The Telegraph

Japan earthquake and tsunami: Key facts and figures -- Washington Post
Why is there no looting in Japan? -- Ed West, The Telegraph
Amid catastrophe, Japan fights mayhem with order -- Chico Harlan, Washington Post
Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl -- William Tucker, Wall Street Journal
Nuclear Disaster 'Will Have Political Impact as Great as 9/11' -- Spiegel Online

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