The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Japanese nuclear industry have agreed that Japan won't be experience a Chernobyl incident. The IAEA provided a scale for nuclear accidents and the Fukushima is at level 4 while Chernobyl was at level 7.
Japan earthquake: Ian Sample on efforts to contain the nuclear accidentAfter three explosions and two fires at the Fukushima nuclear plant workers seem to be losing the battle to contain the radiation. Day by day Ian Sample will be talking us through all the developments, starting with 15 March. Click through to follow the latest events ...
This article is about the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan last Friday was powerful enough to shorten Earth's day by 1.8 microseconds and throw an extra 17 cm into the planet's wobble.