Fukushima nuclear plant emergency: week two - in pictures

Friday 25 March Photograph: Guardian

Friday 25 March: Workers, who stepped into radiation-contaminated water during Thursday's operation at the Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant, are shielded with tarps before receiving decontamination treatment at a hospital in Fukushima. Later the men were transferred to a radiology medical institute for further treatment Photograph: AP

Friday 25 March: Feet, believed to be of one of workers who stepped into contaminated water on Thursday during their operation at the Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant, seen as the workers were transferred to hospital Photograph: Takuya Yoshino/AP

Friday 25 March: Police who have finished checking Minamisoma City for radiation are screened for radiation contamination in Kawamata, Fukushima prefecture. Japan said workers who suffered burns while trying to cool a crippled reactor were exposed to radiation levels 10,000 times higher than expected, adding to evidence that the crucial containment vessel for nuclear fuel had been ruptured Photograph: Kyodo/Reuters

Friday 25 March: Japan's prime minister Naoto Kan bows as he delivers a message to the Japanese people at his official residence in Tokyo. He called on those hit by the devastating 11 March earthquake and tsunami to summon the courage to move forward and overcome Japan's worst post-war crisis. He also said that the situation at the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant was still "very unpredictable" and thanked those "risking their lives" to handle the disaster Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images

Friday 25 March: A Japanese auxiliary multipurpose support ship, the Hiuchi, pulls a US ship in Tokyo bay loaded with fresh water to be used at the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant Photograph: Kyodo News/AP

Friday 25 March: Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama, right, talks with his aide during a press conference on the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear complex, in Tokyo Photograph: AP

Thursday 24 March Photograph: Guardian

Thursday 24 March: Two workers, exposed to high-level radiation during the operation at the Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant, are sent to the Fukushima Medical University Hospital Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images

Thursday 24 March: Smoke rises from the nuclear reactors of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture Photograph: HO/Reuters

Thursday 24 March: A small unmanned drone is pictured before flying over the crippled Fukushima plant to take aerial photos Photograph: AP

Thursday 24 March: City workers move part of a shipment of 240,000 bottles of water to be distributed to government offices around Tokyo. It is part of a programme to supply infants with uncontaminated water after radiation from the damaged nuclear complex briefly made tap water unsafe for babies Photograph: Toru Hanai/Reuters

Thursday 24 March: A woman holds a baby as a family member collects bottled water at a food distribution centre in Yamada, Iwate prefecture Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

Thursday 24 March: The Tokyo governor, Shintaro Ishihara, drinks tap water at the Kanamachi water plant in an attempt to reassure residents of the safety of tap water Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images

Wednesday 23 March Photograph: Guardian

Wednesday 23 March: A handout made available by the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency shows employees of Tokyo Electric Power working to restore power to the central control rooms at Unit 1 and Unit 2 of Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant Photograph: Nuclear And Industrial Safety Ag/EPA

Wednesday 23 March: The central control room of No 1 plant at Fukushima after the lighting was recovered the previous day Photograph: TEPCO /EPA

Wednesday 23 March: This handout picture, taken by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Service Agency shows a destroyed building of Tepco's Fukushima No 1 power plant Photograph: Nuclear And Industrial Safety Ag/AFP/Getty Images

Wednesday 23 March: The control room of the second reactor at Fukushima. High levels of radiation in water two days later forced engineers to suspend their work at reactors 1 and 2 Photograph: Handout/EPA

Wednesday 23 March: Handout photo from the Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency shows Tokyo Electric Power Company workers checking the parameters of instruments in the central control room at the Fukushima Daiichi plant Photograph: Kyodo/Reuters

Wednesday 23 March: Aerial view, taken by unmanned reactor No 1 at Fukushima. On the left is the reactor No 2 Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images

Wednesday 23 March: An aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone of reactor 4, left, and reactor 3 at Fukushima Photograph: AP

Wednesday 23 March: A Tokyo Electric Power Company worker looks at gauges in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant Photograph: Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency/AP

Wednesday 23 March: Plant workers collect data in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2 Photograph: Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency/AP

Wednesday 23 March: The central control room of Tepco's Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant after the lighting was recovered Photograph: Tepco/EPA

Wednesday 23 March: The central control room of Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant Photograph: Tepco/EPA

Wednesday 23 March: Norio Tsuzumi (centre), vice-president of Tokyo Electric Power Company, and his employees bow their heads to apologise to evacuees at a shelter in Koriyama, Fukushima Photograph: Go Takayama/AFP/Getty Images

Wednesday 23 March: A shopper looks at empty shelves where locally grown vegetables used to be for sale in the city of Sukagawa, Fukushima. Today Japan ordered four prefectures near the stricken nuclear plant to stop shipping a range of farm products found to have elevated radiation levels Photograph: Ken Shimizu/AFP/Getty Images

Wednesday 23 March: A farmer looks on as radioactive milk is poured into the soil at a dairy farm in Mito town, Ibaraki prefecture Photograph: EPA

Tuesday 22 March Photograph: Guardian

Tuesday 22 March: In this photo from video footage released by Tepco, smoke billows from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Photograph: AP

Tuesday 22 March: White smoke billows from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Photograph: AP

Tuesday 22 March: A resident explains his fears during a town hall meeting on the impact of radiation exposure from the Fukushima nuclear plant Photograph: Wally Santana/AP

Monday 21 March Photograph: Guardian

Monday 21 March: This picture released by Tepco via Jiji Press shows black smoke rising from reactor No 3 of the No 1 plant Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Monday 21 March: The streets are empty at a shopping mall in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, due to fears of radioactive fallout Photograph: Ken Shimizu/AFP/Getty Images

Monday 21 March: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general, Yukiya Amano, opens the board of governors conference at the agency headquarters in Vienna. The top-level meeting was held as Japan reported 'slow but steady progress' in dealing with the nuclear crisis Photograph: Samuel Kubani/AFP/Getty Images

Sunday 20 March Photograph: Guardian

Sunday 20 March: Satoru Shito, who evacuated from Minami Soma in Fukushima, receives a screening test for traces of nuclear radiation at a welfare centre in Yamagata Photograph: Yuriko Nakao/Reuters

Sunday 20 March: Aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone shows the following reactors at Fukushima: from right, Unit 1, Unit2, Unit 3 and Unit 4 Photograph: AP

Sunday 20 March: People confront police during an anti-war and anti-nuclear march in Tokyo Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP

Saturday 19 March Photograph: Guardian

Saturday 19 March: An image taken through the scope of a radiation detection device shows a small dose of radiation in units of milliroentgens, a unit of measure of ionising radiation. A patient is exposed to an average of 20 milliroentgens of radiation during a regular x-ray exam Photograph: Wally Santana/AP

Saturday 19 March: Government and nuclear specialists at the emergency rescue headquarters analyse data on the radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant Photograph: Wally Santana/AP