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Japan may set up UK-style decommission agency for Fukushima plant
2013-12-05 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's ruling party could set up a British-style agency to shut down the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, taking control of a project now managed by the station's embattled operator, a senior party policymaker said on Thursday. A huge earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered three meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986, and exposed a lack of preparation by Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco. The company has floundered for...
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