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Japan Yanks Workers at Crippled Nuke Plant

Work suspended, residents flee as radiation surges

(Newser) - Japan suspended operations to keep its stricken Fukishima Dai-ichi nuclear plant from melting down yesterday after surging radiation made it too dangerous for employees to stay. Workers dousing the reactors in a frantic effort to cool them have been ordered to withdraw, a government minister said. "The workers cannot...

Why You Should Have Sympathy for Gilbert Gottfried

He reacted as a comic would, but with awful timing: Mary Elizabeth Williams

(Newser) - If you were shocked by Gilbert Gottfried's Japan tweets, dust off that memory book: This isn't the first time the comic's attempts at humor have been met with cries of "Too soon!" After all, Mary Elizabeth Williams reminds us on Salon , Gottfried was the one who quipped that...

Fire Flares at Nuclear Plant; 2 Workers Missing

Japan still on brink on nuclear meltdown

(Newser) - Yet another fire appears to have erupted at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, reports Reuters . Details remained sketchy, and it's possible this fire is a flare-up from an earlier fire at the building that houses reactor No. 4. That earlier fire blew a hole in the building and emitted radiation,...

Dog Sticks By Injured Friend After Tsunami

Video illustrates challenges of animal victims, says blog

(Newser) - This one looks to be going viral on BuzzFeed : A video from Japan shows one dog sticking by the side of another dog who's apparently been injured in the tsunami. It's not just for an aw-shucks moment, adds the LifeWithDogs blog , which has the video posted on site. "Yesterday,...

50 Japan Workers Risk Lives Trying to Avert Meltdown

They remain in plant amid fire, explosions, and dangerous radiation levels

(Newser) - Japan has evacuated roughly 170,000 people from a 30-mile radius around the Fukishima Dai-ichi plant and even instituted a no-fly zone around it, but at least 50 people aren't going anywhere. That's how many technicians remain inside the plant, writes Dana Kennedy at AoL News , and it's no exaggeration...

Hoaxer Convinces Dad His Daughter Died in Tsunami

But Alice Byron is safe, and had evacuated

(Newser) - Ashley Russell found the information on a missing persons website set up for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami: His daughter, Alice Byron, was dead. But several hours later, the Australian man learned the truth: Byron was alive, and he had been the victim of an online hoax. The...

Japan Earthquake: Two Large Aftershocks Rattle Tokyo
 2 New Quakes Rattle Tokyo 
Mar 15, 2011 11:07 AM CDT

2 New Quakes Rattle Tokyo

Aftershocks measured 6.2 and 6.0

(Newser) - Japan has been rattled by a couple of aftershocks within minutes, causing buildings in Tokyo to sway. The first, measuring 6.2 in magnitude, struck tonight off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, 200 miles northeast of Tokyo and near where the massive quake hit last Friday. Three minutes later, a...

Japan Earthquake Miracles: Baby Rescued From Rubble, and More

 Baby Pulled From 
 Rubble in Japan 
and more miracle rescues
Mar 15, 2011 9:20 AM CDT

Baby Pulled From Rubble in Japan

Elderly woman also rescued from house after five days

(Newser) - From the devastation in Japan, a few miracles: Most notably, a 4-month-old baby pulled from the rubble in the coastal town of Ishinomaki, where she had been wrenched from her parents’ arms when the tsunami hit three days before. Soldiers, whose mission had turned from rescue to recovery after finding...

Markets Reeling From Japan Crisis

Dow off more than 200 after Nikkei falls 11%

(Newser) - Stocks around the world plummeted today, thanks to huge losses in Japan, where the Nikkei Stock Average fell a whopping 11%, completing its biggest two-day drop since 1987. That prompted big Asian and European sell-offs, especially in Germany, where the DAX 30 fell 4.5% in interday trading. In the...

Japan Nuclear Crisis: 'We Are on the Brink'

Experts say worst-case scenario could be upon us

(Newser) - Now that Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station has experienced its third explosion in four days and radiation is spreading , “We are on the brink. We are now facing the worst-case scenario,” says one expert. In an extensive New York Times piece detailing the timeline and series...

Glenn Beck: Quake Was Message From God

'Follow the Ten Commandments, people'

(Newser) - Japan's massive earthquake was probably a message from God, and Glenn Beck says the big guy's clearly not very happy. So what's the message? It's not entirely clear, but what we're doing is all wrong, and we should be following the Ten Commandments, not like "radical" Islamists, Beck counsels....

Gilbert Gottfried Fired for Tsunami Jokes

Aflac ditches comedian after tasteless tweets

(Newser) - Gilbert Gottfried has quacked his last for Aflac. The comedian, who has provided the grating voice for the insurance company's trademark duck, was fired for tweeting more than a dozen jokes making fun of earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan, Failure Magazine reports. Sample: "Japan is very advanced. They...

Radiation Spreading From Japan's Nuke Plant
 Radiation Spreading  
 From Japan's Nuke Plant  
TOKYO LEVELS ON THE RISE
Mar 15, 2011 1:58 AM CDT

Radiation Spreading From Japan's Nuke Plant

Residents ordered to stay inside after latest blast, fire

(Newser) - An alarming level of radiation is leaking from the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo after an explosion and fire today , and nearby residents have been warned to stay indoors to avoid exposure, AP reports. Radiation around the plant is now high enough to be a health risk,...

New Explosion Rocks Japanese Nuclear Plant

Suppression pool found to have a defect

(Newser) - A third explosion in four days rocked the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan early Tuesday, the country's nuclear safety agency said. The plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said the explosion occurred near the suppression pool in the reactor's containment vessel. The pool was later found to...

Japan's Nuclear Crisis: Let's Not Freak Out
Let's Not Freak Out Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis 

OPINION
Mar 14, 2011 12:45 PM CDT

Let's Not Freak Out Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis

It's far from another Chernobyl

(Newser) - America is positively freaking out over the state of Japan’s nuclear reactors, with some calling for a halt to the development of new nuclear plants. But that’s a wild overreaction, opines a Wall Street Journal editorial. The media’s done a poor job of putting the tragedy in...

Japan's Earthquake Upgraded to 9.0

That's 1.5 times stronger than original estimate of 8.9

(Newser) - The US Geological Survey has upgraded the magnitude of Friday's deadly earthquake in Japan to 9.0. The move comes after Japan's Meteorological Agency did the same. US government scientists originally put the Japan quake at 8.9. The change to 9.0 means that the quake was about 1....

50 Cent's Japan Earthquake Tweets Anger Twitter Users
 Celebs Busy 
 Tweeting Bad 
 Quake Jokes 
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Mar 14, 2011 10:46 AM CDT

Celebs Busy Tweeting Bad Quake Jokes

50 Cent says 'ignorant' tweets are just for 'shock value'

(Newser) - Add Gilbert Gottfried to the list of people who thought it would be a good idea to respond to the Japan earthquake ... by making tasteless jokes about it. Over the past 24 hours the comedian has tweeted 12, er, zingers, TMZ reports, among them: "I f***ed a girl in...

Terrifying Videos Show Japan Tsunami

Videos show wave carrying away everything in its path

(Newser) - Videos released over the weekend give a better idea of just how terrifying and destructive the Japan tsunami was. Pat’s Papers points to two in particular, one showing a street-level view of the wave in Kesennuma City, another showing the tsunami slamming into and over Miyako City’s seawall....

Japan Earthquake: How You Can Help

Seven ways to donate and spread awareness

(Newser) - If the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has you feeling helpless, turn to Mashable . The site rounds up seven ways you can do something—even if you’re broke:
  • Like a page: For each person that “likes” the “Dog Bless You” Facebook page for search and rescue
...

US Carrier Crew Exposed to Radiation From Japan

Officials say crew received a month's radiation in just one hour

(Newser) - The US aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, sailing 100 miles off the east coast of Japan, passed through a cloud of radiation spawned by the country's crippled nuclear reactors , delivering a month's worth of radiation to the crew in just one hour, reports the New York Times . Officials stressed that the...

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