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Five days in Japan: loss and the invisible threat
Five days on from the earthquake which shook Japan, Jon Snow looks back at the unimaginable human loss and the unbelievable invisible threat.
Fears of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant are causing trauma and travel chaos across tsunami-stricken Japan as foreign governments tell their nationals to evacuate.
As fear spreads in Japan, radiation expert Professor Gerry Thomas tells Channel 4 News: “We are panicking that poor, savaged population about radiation that is not going to harm them.”
Watch video of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, filmed by military helicopters dumping water on it, as a nuclear expert tells Channel 4 News elements of the response are “shambolic”.
Eyewitness footage of the tsunami striking Northern Japan and the subsequent scramble to rescue men, women and children from the flooded streets.
Footage filmed inside a moving car as the tsunami hits the road and covers the vehicle. The driver, who survived, tells local media: “I could do nothing but keep driving, it was terrifying.”
What impact will Japan’s nuclear disaster have on future power station plans? Environmental psychologist Professor Nick Pidgeon, reports on how disasters like these alter our perception of risk.
Five days on from the earthquake which shook Japan, Jon Snow looks back at the unimaginable human loss and the unbelievable invisible threat.
UK Foreign Office suggest citizens in Japan leave the country as US officials sound stronger warnings on the threat from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Channel 4 News Alex Thomson reports from Kamaishi where blizzards and ice now blanket a village whose massive tsunami protection walls failed to save its people last Friday.
Crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan as officials warn radiation levels close to the plant are now high enough to impact human health. Follow our live blog to get the latest.
Science Correspondent Tom Clarke considers the far greater danger to human health if it transpires that nuclear fuel in storage pools at the stricken Japanese plant has undergone fission.
Walking the upturned streets of Ofunato in Japan, Alex Thomson paints a desolate scene of destruction in another day witnessing what he says is the worst disaster he has visited in his career.
What are the implications for nuclear power from the crisis in Japan? Jon Snow looks at the future.
British search and rescue workers in Japan say they “remain optimistic” they will find survivors in the wake of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
British aid workers have reached the remote tsunami hit Japanese town of Ofunato, which Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson describes as “desolation, almost beyond words.”