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Japan's Disasters May Hit Your Finances

By: David Mayer | 2011-06-21 | Insurance
This article explains the lessons that we may learn from the triple disaster in Japan. Beyond the obvious, disasters can hugely impact personal and business finances, including life insurance. read more

Japan’s Recovery Continues

By: james smith | 2011-07-12 | Currency Trading
An article Japan's recovery after the tsunami. read more

Japan's Nuclear Crisis

By: ddddddd | 2011-03-31 | Arts & Entertainment
UN watchdog suggests widening of the exclusion zone around Fukushima nuclear power station after radiation measured at a village 40 km from the facility exceeds a criterion for evacuation. - French P... read more

25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

By: Mary Rose | 2011-04-26 | News and society
On April 26, 2011, Ukraine celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear crisis that resulted in severe consequences. Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, make a landmark visit to Chernobyl for memorial ceremonies. Early on Tuesday, President Yanukovych also attended a candle-lighting service led by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who struck a bell at 0123 (2223 GMT Monday), the time of the blast, in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. On 26 April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl’s No 4 reactor killed immediately 31 people, forced the huge evacuation of thousands of people from their homes in Ukraine, western Russia and Belarus and led to radiation-related sicknesses such as cancer of many others. read more

Japan’s Resilience After Tsunami

By: Mary Rose | 2011-03-15 | News and society
The massive offshore earthquake of 8.9 Richter scale and devastating tsunami have turned Japan's northeastern coast into a swampy wasteland. Powerful tsunami sent by one of the strongest ever recorded earthquakes has wiped away towns and cities in northeast coast and forced thousands of residents seeking shelter in the aftermath. Reportedly, thousands of people are missing and exceed of more 10, 000 people are dead. Earth – tsunami disaster has destroyed houses and overturned cars by sludge and dirty water. In such a situation of horrific destruction after once-in-300-years earthquake, Japan earns the world's admiration for the nation's resilience. read more

Fukushima Nuclear Mishaps - Inside of the Japan Nucular Disaster

By: AmyKyles | 2011-04-03 | Health & Fitness
The Fukushima Nuclear in Japan features a track history of nucular disaster inside previous. Learn additional regarding the Fukushima Nuclear disaster, as well as other info for the Japan Nuculear Disaster. read more

Japan Needs Help After Quake-Tsunami Disaster

By: Mary Rose | 2011-03-18 | Current Affairs
It has been a week when the Mother Nature endows peaceful and orderly Japan with the wake of Friday’s disaster. In the face of calamity caused by massive earthquake and tsunami, Japanese people remained their resilience, culture's patience, deep sense of community spirit and stoicism which gain sincere and stronger international brand name. Daily life experiences a shortage of water, electricity, homes or heat. In the scenes of destruction, there is totally no violence and looting. Instead, residents are still forming orderly queues for food and fresh water supplies. However, Japan needs urgent help from other countries. read more

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Celebrated Worldwide

By: Mary Rose | 2011-04-28 | News and society
While the world is witnessing the worst nuclear crisis happened in Fukushima, Japan. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia marked the 25th anniversary of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear crisis which was considered as worst civil nuclear accident on the planet. Along with these three countries, people from all around the world are also celebrating this disaster. read more

Japan Quake And Tsunami: Atomic Explosions & Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns

By: Mary Rose | 2011-03-14 | News and society
The most powerful quake in Japan’s recorded history followed by a tsunami savaging the northeastern coast has not only caused heavy casualties and severe property consequences, but also led to dead multiple nuclear meltdowns. The first massive explosion and leak rocked the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, happened on Saturday (March 12, 2011) and make thousands of people be evacuated from their home. Unfortunately, radiation levels around the plant had risen above the safety limit. It threatened to be the world’s most devastating nuclear disaster since Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. On Saturday, Japanese officials took the extraordinary step of flooding the No. 1 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 170 miles north of Tokyo, with seawater in an effort to avoid a nuclear meltdown. On Sunday, operators lost the ability to cool the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s reactor No.3 and three reactors at a nucle read more

Iran and Nuclear Power

By: Victor Epand | 2010-04-04 | News and society
This article explains the situation about Iran and Nuclear power. read more

Japan Nuclear Crisis Tends Fears In India

By: MJB News Online | 2011-04-06 | News and society
The disaster of nuclear reactors in Fukushima in Japan has been tending fears in India. The top nuclear officials of India were saying that the existing reactors of the country are safe and the next g... read more

World’s Most Devastated Nuclear Catastrophes

By: Mary Rose | 2011-04-14 | Free
The world has witnessed some devastated nuclear catastrophes for 32 years that killed thousands of people and damaged seriously our living environment. read more

Nuclear Power Today

By: Robert Boroff | 2011-04-13 | Business
Nuclear power has always been a topic of great concern throughout the worlds history. The Cold War, which instilled fear in millions of people, consisted of proxy wars, economic tension following Worl... read more

Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Serious Risks

By: Mary Rose | 2011-03-31 | Current Affairs
The ongoing nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima last weekend has raised the renewed concerns around the world about the nuclear power plants and the nuclear safety. In the worst situation about nuclear power, the nuclear catastrophe in faraway Fukushima has brought the serious risks of America's Atomic Time Bomb: Hanford Nuclear (biggest nuclear mess located Washington state) into spotlight. Reportedly, fifty-two buildings at Hanford and 240 square miles in the Pacific Northwest of the United States are uninhabitable for decades due to radioactivity. From 1944 to 1971, the cooling water which was used for cooling was secretly pumped right back into the river. An estimated of 216 million liters of radioactive and over 100,000 spent fuel rods were released to the Columbia River. read more

In Picture: Fukushima Nuclear Explosion

By: Mary Rose | 2011-03-21 | Current Affairs
The history – making earthquake and tsunami have caused the most serious nuclear accidents in Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants – the world’s most devastating nuclear disaster since Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. The first massive explosion and leak happened on March 12, 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant. Despite all immediate efforts to cool down the reactors, reactor No.3 and three other reactors lost its ability to cool on Sunday. The fact leads to three massive hydrogen explosions in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant which send enormous column of smoke into the air. An estimated of more than 180,000 people have evacuated. More dangerously, the radioactive leakage has raised the radiation levels around the plant above the safety limit which leaves 160 people being exposed to radiation. read more