A powerful aftershock that rocked an area of Japan already reeling from last month’s earthquake and tsunami disaster killed two people and injured more than 100, broadcaster NHK said on Friday. The quake was initially measured at magnitude-7.4, though the US Geological Survey later downgraded it to 7.1. Either way, it was the [...]

Workers’ desperate struggle to plug a gush of highly contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, using sawdust, shredded newspaper and an absorbent powder, appeared to be failing late Sunday as the radiation threat from the crippled plant continued to spread. Water containing high amounts of radioactive iodine has been spewing directly into [...]

TOKYO — A Japanese nuclear official says highly radioactive water is leaking from a damaged nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. Nuclear safety spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama says the air above the leak contains 1,000 millisiverts of radioactivity. Exposure to 500 millisiverts over a short period of time can increase the risk of cancer. The water [...]

The  Massachusetts Department of Public Health(DPH) announced that very low concentrations of radioiodine-131 (a form or radiation), likely associated with the Japan nuclear power plant event, have been detected in a rainwater sample, MyFoxBoston.com reports. There is no health impact to state drinking water supplies as a result of these findings, and state and [...]

The aftermath of the 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Japan, caused workers to battle to prevent nuclear meltdown at the stricken atomic power plant were evacuated on Wednesday morning after radiation levels became too dangerous for them to remain. Workers battling to prevent nuclear meltdown at the stricken atomic power plant were temporarily evacuated on Wednesday [...]