Workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant have been evacuated after radioactivity in the water at reactor number 2 increased above the the usual limit. Radiation levels in Tokyo remain normal.
Newly released aerial footage from the day of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, shows both the immediate damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant and the massive tsunami wave heading inshore.
A nuclear plant in Japan, which is experiencing problems after the quake and tsunami, has taken in hundreds of local people who are homeless after the disaster. Alex Thomson tries to get inside to find out the full story but is denied access.
Japanese authorities advise that infants should only drink bottled water after the detection of more than twice the safe level of radioactive iodine in the Tokyo water supply.
Alex Thomson on the remarkable effort to keep Japan’s airports operational just ten days after the devastating tsunami.
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Jon has received a poignant letter from a European woman in Sendai. She describes a town where people leave their doors open and neighbours leave food for each other on porches; ‘a return to the good old days’.
The Japanese Self-Defence forces are hard at work in Sendai but in evacuation centres across the stricken area, normal life is still hard to come by.
The town of Taro’s walls are in ruins; an earth and concrete embankment gouged and worn to nothing by the influx of thousands of tonnes of Pacific Ocean, blogs Alex Thomson from Japan.
As Japanese engineers appear to make progress controlling the world’s worst nuclear crisis for 25 years, a nuclear expert tells Channel 4 News the plant may need to be encased in concrete.
Nine days after the tsunami devastated Japan, Alex Thomson meets a family who have travelled hundreds of miles to say farewell to a missing loved-one.
A pensioner and a teenager have been pulled alive from the rubble of the Japanese tsunami. The good news comes as officials say 15,000 people may have been killed in Miyagi prefecture alone.
As charities work to help the millions affected by Japan’s tsunami, Save the Children’s Andrew Wander writes for Channel 4 News about the challenges of making “child friendly spaces” amid the carnage.
Japan is considering banning the sale of food from Fukushima due to radiation. Teams are trying to restore power to the nuclear plant and Alex Thomson says businesses are closing early to save energy.
Winter weather and fears of radiation are hampering relief efforts in Japan, where Save the Children say: “We are finding pockets of profound humanitarian need.”
The Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics at the University of Catalonia recorded the sound of the earthquake that hit Japan last week, as it sounded underwater.