Japan
Until the Fukushima accident, Japan had 55 operating nuclear reactors as well as enrichment and reprocessing plants which had suffered a series of deadly accidents at its nuclear facilities resulting in the deaths of workers and releases of radioactivity into the environment and surrounding communities. Since the Fukushima disaster, there is growing opposition against re-opening those reactors closed for maintenance.
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May 23, 2011 
Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma has expressed her solidarity with the people of Japan at this time of triple calamity (earthquake/tsunami/nuclear catastrophe).
May 23, 2011 The Mainichi Daily News of Japan has reported that a controversy is raging over whether a comment made by the chair of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, Haruki Madarame, led Tokyo Electric Power Company to suspend injection of seawater into reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, contributing to meltdowns.
May 23, 2011 The Mainichi Daily News of Japan has reported that Japanese PM Kan and his chief spokesman Edano have denied any involvement in Tokyo Electric Power Company's decision to suspend seawater injection into damaged and melting reactor cores on the second day of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.
May 16, 2011 Reuters: A government body conducted analyses on the damage tsunamis of various scale would inflict on a nuclear power plant, according to documents made public yesterday, adding to allegations that Japan and its largest utility failed to heed warnings.
The latest revelation, reported by the Mainichi daily, emerged as the government prepares to help the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) compensate victims of the crisis at the tsunami-crippled nuclear Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.
The government and TEPCO have repeatedly described the combination of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the ensuing 15m tsunami as beyond expectations. Read more.
May 5, 2011 As reported by Reuters, those words came from an evacuee from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe, as the head of Tokyo Electric Power Company sought his forgiveness. Eight of the evacuee's loved ones, including his 95 year old mother, had died in evacuation centers since the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear catastrophe triple blow began on Japan's northeast coast.
