In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95 billion. The year 2024 was marked by extreme temperature events in Asia that caused thousands of deaths, severe droughts in Africa affecting over 25 …
The crumpled cars have reddened with rust, and spring rains and a warming sun have left the ashes and mud hardened into an earthen plate of armor. But Satoshi Watanabe still comes every day to pick through the charred debris that was once his home, searching for the remains of …
Fukushima: Residents in Kawamata and Iitate began leaving their homes today after their living areas were included in an evacuation radius the government widened last month around the radiation-leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant. Kawamata Mayor Michio Furukawa met with some 50 residents in the first group of evacuees telling them:
A government body conducted analyses on the damage tsunamis of various scale would inflict on a nuclear power plant, according to documents made public on Sunday, adding to allegations that Japan and its largest utility failed to heed warnings. The latest revelation, reported by the Mainichi daily, emerged as the …
Japanese officials are readying a new approach o stabilising a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from he containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool. The discovery has forced officials to abandon heir original plan to …
Bill for independent regulatory authority in monsoon session of Parliament The Central government is set to form an independent regulatory authority, which will be responsible for nuclear safety and enforcement of safety standards. A bill to that effect will be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament this year, Union …
Japanese power firm Chubu Electric on Monday agreed to shut a nuclear plant until it can be better defended against the type of massive tsunami that in March triggered the worst atomic crisis in 25 years. The temporary shutdown of Hamaoka, which supplies power to central Japan -- home to …
The Association of Friends of Japan (AFJ), Pune, handed over a cheque ofRs55,051 to the Mumbai-based consul general of Japan, T Mochida, as part of their Japan tsunami relief fund last week. In a press statement, AFJ said that the monies had been collected from common Puneites. AFJ had earlier …
A Japanese nuclear power plant has decided to halt its operations in a potentially unstable seismic zone. The Chubu Electric Power Company (CEPC) made the critical decision on Monday following Prime Minister Naoto Kan's intervention late last week. Mr. Kan had cited a scientific forecast about the
Q. Is it time to stop building nuclear power plants and shift to thermal or other forms of energy? Let’s be realistic. The world has limited sources from which electricity can be generated. Japan's fault was that it stored spent fuel. Electricity produced from thermal, natural gas and oil has …
TEPCO also started increasing the amount of water being injected into the troubled No.1 reactor core as it prepared to flood the unit's primary containment vessel to cool the fuel inside in a stable manner Scrambling hard to contain its worst atomic crisis, Japan is mulling setting up of a …
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit near Cilacap in Central Java on Tuesday, the Indonesian earthquake monitoring agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued. An official at the agency said the centre of the quake was offshore and he estimated there would not be much …
New Delhi After the deadly earthquake and a following tsunami in Japan caused a damage of $309 billion, India has started work on rules that will make it mandatory for at least 13 major ports to have insurance. While major ports in India have been indifferent to preventing the financial …
For more than 1000 years, we have known that the seas off the coast of Sendai in Japan can turn treacherous. An account of how one quake unleashed a flood that swept away a castle town can be found in Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (The True History of Three Reigns of …
London: The breast milk of four Japanese mothers has been found to contain small quantities of radioactive iodine. This development has led to pressure being brought on the government to initiate a full investigation into the impact of the nuclear disaster on mothers and babies following the discovery. The radiation …
Japan: The nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has worsened, with no definitive plan to control the situation. JAPAN's famed spirit of scientific innovation and improvisation is being tested beyond known standards by the radiation crisis spawned by the March 11 temblor and tsunami. As this is written, the …
Tokyo/Fukushima, Japan may for the first time designate as "off-limits" the 20-km evacuation zone around the tsunami damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, amid concerns over radiation risks to residents who have been returning temporarily to collect their belongings. Premier Naoto Kan, who is to visit Fukushima prefecture where the crippled plant …
Workers at a quake-hit nuclear plant in Japan on Tuesday began removing highly radioactive water from a reactor turbine building, a key step towards restoring cooling systems, the government said. The magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 knocked out power systems …
