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Japan to construct ice wall to stem Fukushima radioactive water
2013-09-03 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Japan's government is to spend almost $500m (320m) in an attempt to contain leaks and decontaminate highly toxic water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The measures, announced on Tuesday, come as the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), struggles to prevent leaks into the Pacific Ocean and to find a way to contain and treat the huge volume of water that has accumulated at the site since it was hit by a tsunami in March 2011. The decision is widely seen as a safety appeal...
Japan to spend 40 billion yen to treat radioactive water at Fukushima: Nikkei
2013-09-02 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Japan government plans to spend at least 40 billion yen ($402.60 million) to contain the leaking of radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Nikkei newspaper said, citing government sources. The government is expected to announce on Tuesday a package of measures to deal with the crisis at the Tokyo Electric Power Co plant wrecked by an earthquake in 2011. The government intends to cover all the costs for freezing the soil around the reactors to prevent groundwater...
Japan: Fukushimas Radioactive Legacy is Just Beginning
2013-09-02 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The discovery at the plant of a leak of radioactive caesium eight times more dangerous than the levels immediately after the Fukushima accident in March 2011 has aroused international concern that Japan is incapable of containing the aftermath of the accident. A Chinese statement expressed shock at the news and urged Japan to be more open about the problem. This prompted Japans Nuclear Regulation Authority to upgrade the leak from a level one incident, an anomaly, to a level three: a serious...
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Japan: Fukushima's Radioactive Plume to Reach U.S. by 2014
2013-09-01 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, according to a new study. The long journey of the radioactive particles could help researchers better understand how the oceans currents circulate around the world. Ocean simulations showed that the plume of radioactive cesium-137 released by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 could begin flowing into...
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Japanese agency labels radioactive leak 'serious'
2013-08-28 11:05:08| Energy - Topix.net
Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday upgraded the rating of a leak of radiation-contaminated water from a tank at its tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant to a "serious incident" on an international scale, and it castigated the plant operator for failing to catch the problem earlier.
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