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Radiation from Japan nuclear disaster results in mutant butterflies
Radiation that leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant following last year’s tsunami caused mutations in some butterflies – including dented eyes and stunted wings – though humans seem relatively unaffected, researchers say.
The mutations are the first evidence that the radiation has caused genetic changes in living organisms. They are likely to add to concerns about potential health risks among humans though there is no evidence of it yet. Scientists say more study is needed to link human health with the Fukushima disaster.
(Photo: AP Photo/Chiyo Nohara of University of the Ryukyus)
Photos: Typhoon Roke hits Japan, threatens damaged nuclear plant
A powerful typhoon struck Japan on Wednesday, pummeling the Tokyo area with heavy rain, disrupting public transportation and leaving four people dead, and it was headed towards the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Typhoon Roke, the second big storm to hit Japan this month, was packing winds of up to 220 km per hour and dumped more than 40 cm of rain in parts of eastern and western Japan over the past 24 hours, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (Photo: JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Photos of the day, April 12, 2011
A volunteer cleans a family photo that was washed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as baby photos are placed to dry at a volunteer centre in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, April 12, 2011. (REUTERS/Toru Hanai)
Japan ranks Fukushima on par with Chernobyl
Japan put its nuclear calamity on a par with the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, on Tuesday after new data showed that more radiation leaked from its earthquake-crippled power plant in the early days of the crisis than first thought.
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Radiation leaks may continue for months: Japan
Japan Earthquake Graphic: The newly expanded nuclear evacuation zone
With the discovery of radioactive water at a second reactor at the Fukushima nuclear complex, the fear of a possible meltdown and of serious contamination of the countryside northeast of Tokyo has escalated.
Highly radioactive water leaks from Japanese nuclear plant
Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan’s crippled nuclear complex, the plant’s operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.
Photos of the day, March 21, 2011
This picture taken on March 11, 2011 by Sadatsugu Tomizawa and released via Jiji Press on March 21, 2011 shows tsunami waves hitting the coast of Minamisoma in Fukushima prefecture. The number of people confirmed dead or listed as missing in Japan neared 22,000, 10 days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country’s northeast coast. (SADATSUGU TOMIZAWA/AFP/Getty Images)
Troubled Japanese nuclear plant had spotty record
When the massive tsunami smacked into Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power plant was stacked high with more uranium than it was originally designed to hold and had repeatedly missed mandatory safety checks over the past decade
Disaster in Japan: Nuclear Wakes
The nuclear crisis at Fukushima has been compared to Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Aileen Donnelly examines all three disasters.
Smoke seen at Fukushima power plant
Japanese Gen Y inherits nuclear nightmare
Map: Expanding evacuation zones around Fukushima nuclear power plan
Japan’s nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power plant because of surging radiation levels and a helicopter failed to drop water on the most troubled reactor. Read the complete story here. Above, the latest on the exclusion zones around the nuclear plant in Fukushima.
Japan Earthquake Graphic: Inside Fukushima Daiichi’s most worrisome reactor
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Japan photos: Life amid chaos
Japan scrambles to pull nuclear plant back from brink
Get the latest news and live updates on our new Japan Earthquake page
Graphic: Nuclear problems another hurdle for Japanese rescue efforts
Japanese authorities are busy coping with problems at a number of nuclear facilities affected by Friday’s earthquake and tsunami.
Post Primer: Inside Japanese nuclear reactors
The National Post spoke to a variety of experts about how Japanese nuclear reactors are designed and how safety features are meant to keep the public safe. None could say exactly how the events in Japan are unfolding, but given what they know about reactor design they were able to speculate on some of the basic issues now facing the Japanese reactors.
Peter Goodspeed: Nuclear hubris played a role in Japanese disaster
Just weeks before the world marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Japan is faced with the possibility of nuclear meltdowns in five earthquake-damaged nuclear reactors. Two power plants have already exploded before our eyes on television, serving as a testament to the calamitous scope of the natural disasters that have traumatized Japan.
Graphic: Meltdown fears
Japan scrambled to avert a meltdown at a stricken nuclear reactor on Monday after a second hydrogen explosion rocked the facility, just days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 10,000 people.
Fears of major radiation leak in Japan
Photos: Japan reels after deadly quake
Once-idyllic fishing town now a paradise lost
