It has been almost 18 months since the disastrous meltdowns struck four nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant in northern Japan.
1 Film The Queen of Versailles Hit Sundance documentary about a mega-rich couple building the largest single-family home in America – and the fallout when the 2008 financial meltdown strikes.
The global financial meltdown has struck the art market, with a Francis Bacon self-portrait with an estimate of $40m failing to sell at a disappointing auction in New York last night.
Many of the biggest foreign policy crises that Washington has faced in the past decade have been rooted in the turmoil that can roil the global markets, from Russia's economic implosion to the financial meltdowns that struck Mexico and Asia.
Partial meltdowns usually strike a core's middle regions instead of the edge, where temperatures are typically lower.
Almost 7,000 workers are involved in decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi, which suffered a triple meltdown after it was struck by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
All of Japan's reactors were switched off after the 11 March 2011 disaster, in which three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant went into meltdown after it was struck by a huge earthquake and tsunami.
Japanese engineers fought to save three reactors from meltdown at the stricken Fukushima 1 power station as they battled another explosion and a series of frustrating setbacks that saw workers yesterday struggle to pump seawater into the reactors in a desperate attempt to cool the overheating nuclear cores and make them safe.
All were running when the tsunami struck; all suffered meltdowns.
The photographer Jake Price left New York for Japan forty-eight hours after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck, leading to meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in 2011.
