It's official now! Fukushima at par with Chernobyl

Japan has decided to raise the severity level of the crisis at its tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the maximum seven on an international scale from the current status of......

Strong quake jolts Japan; evacuation zone widened

A powerful magnitude-7.1 quake rattled Japan's northeast on Monday, forcing evacuation of workers from a radiation-leaking atomic plant around which the exclusion zone was also widened. The latest......

Japan: Toxic leak plugged at crippled N-plant

Japanese workers at the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant on Tuesday plugged a crack leaking highly toxic water into the sea from a concrete pit, though authorities were concerned about a......

Japan using coloured dye to trace radiation path

Battling highly radioactive water from leaking into the sea, desperate Japanese engineers on Monday pumped coloured powder to trace leakage, as the operator Tokyo Electric Power Company announced......