TOKYO (AP) - Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation ...

Japanese officials said the leaks from the Fukushima plant so far amount to a tenth of the radiation emitted from Chernobyl, but about 10 times the amount needed to reach the level 7 threshold. They ...

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a ...

The worst nuclear disaster in history was handled poorly, Donvan says. March 17, 2011— -- Though there are complaints that too little information is getting out about Japan's nuclear power plant, ...

TOKYO — Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing the amount of radiation ...

Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks are ...

The panelists discuss the events that led up to the Chernobyl incident and the political fallout. In Part 1 of "Nature Comes Back - 25 Years After Chernobyl", the panelists discuss the events that led ...

On March 24th, a meeting took place in Minsk, initiated by the Japanese side, to discuss issues related to addressing the consequences ...

The meeting was organized upon the initiative of the Japanese side. Participants of the meeting discussed the possibility of resuming Belarus-Japan cooperation in overcoming consequences of radiation ...