High-tech Russia

Russia has called in the big guns to detect radiation on its Far Eastern coast, which lies around 500 miles from Japan and its unfolding nuclear disaster.

Those big guns are … sea scallops.

“If the radiation in the water rises, the health of the mollusks will change as they react to the ions in heavy metal,” read a statement by Primvodokanal, the state-run local water firm. “So far, this has not happened.”

Russian tourists who were in Japan at the time of last week’s earthquake have begun releasing videos. This one shows how the terrifying quake went down in a Tokyo amusement park.