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Thursday, December 20, 2012  Tsunami debris experts are setting out to examine a dock that washed ashore on a remote beach in Washington.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011  The Fukushima nuclear accident's status has been raised from 5 to 7, the highest level, putting it on par with the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.

Thursday, April 07, 2011  A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Japan. This comes less than a month after a 9.0 magnitude quake devistated the area.

Thursday, April 07, 2011  Curbing nuclear power worldwide: bad news for climate change or window of opportunity?

Wednesday, March 30, 2011  Leadership vacuum at Japanese utility as radiation levels rise outside leaking nuclear plant

Friday, March 25, 2011  Japan's leader calls situation 'grave' at nuclear plant where dangerous breach suspected

Wednesday, March 23, 2011  Radiation detected in Tokyo's tap water; smoke prompts new evacuation of leaking nuclear plant

Thursday, March 17, 2011  US authorizes evacuations out of Japan and warns Americans not to travel to country

Wednesday, March 16, 2011  The crisis in Japan stands to make it harder and costlier for US nuclear industry to build reactors

Tuesday, March 15, 2011  Nuclear safety official says spent fuel pool at crippled plant may be boiling

Monday, March 14, 2011  Tide of 1,000 bodies washes up in Japan, overwhelming crematoriums as nuclear crisis deepens

Sunday, March 13, 2011  Japan's prime minister called the crisis the most severe challenge the nation has faced since World War II.

Saturday, March 12, 2011  At the heart of Japan's disaster, scenes of devastation and woe greet the dawn

Friday, March 11, 2011  Updated with 4 videos. Tsunami hits Japan and Hawaii after 8.9 earthquake in Japan.

Friday, March 11, 2011  Ironically, "tsunami" is a Japanese word.  It means, "harbor wave", but it is actually not a wave at all.  It's a series of surges of water that move throughout the depth of the ocean, where a "wave" is a phenomenon that is usually confined nearer to the surface, and therefore as they come in don't have the force of the ocean's depth behind them.