46164410 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.npr.org/2011/03/15/134573310/Japanese-Victims-Flee-Area-Near-Power-Plant?ft=1&f=1007First there was the earthquake, then the tsunami, and now the crisis in Japan is only getting more complicated with the nuclear plant. After another explosion and fire was reported at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan's prime minister announced in a televised address that those living....Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:29:00 +0100npr-3dc405fdd93ed5b62e9b8a28851adae020110315222900http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Warning+apocalypse+fallout+hits+danger+levels/4440891/story.htmlJapan's ongoing nuclear emergency was compared to an "apocalypse" by the European Union's energy commissioner Tuesday night as dangerous levels of radiation were detected around the crippled power plant.Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:29:00 +0100montrealgazette-017479c0009e062810e7df7d3d1db68220110315222900http://www.npr.org/2011/03/15/134552475/radiation-fears-rise-at-japanese-power-plant?ft=1&f=1001Operators of the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant are having second thoughts about a dramatic plan to stave off a meltdown in a fire-damaged reactor by dumping water on it via helicopter. Concerns are growing about water levels in a pool where spent fuel rods are overheating.Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:29:00 +0100npr-e7ce0a3a1d87c1d6efa980e56dc9751c20110315222900http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8383379/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-funnelled-up-river-destroying-inland-town.htmlThe warnings did sound last Friday but, Iwako Onodera said, no one paid them much attention - and certainly not at her house two miles inland, out of sight of the sea in a valley that was once carpeted with orchards and rice paddies.Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:28:00 +0100telegraph-bb6e9748be5640e5e09db12a6fd3065e20110315222800