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After 4 Years, Fukushima Nuclear Cleanup in Japan Remains Daunting, Vast

2015-03-13 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: Neon pink and yellow banners flutter along the roadsides, their gentle flapping breaking an eerie stillness. The houses here are shut tight, the streets are nearly deserted, the fields that once sprouted rice, tomatoes and cucumbers are fallow. Shigeo Karimata dons a hard hat and a mask and prepares to get out of his car. "Some people say, 'Oh, it looks like a festival!`" says the avuncular 62-year-old Environment Ministry worker. "Then they see the writing on the flags: 'Decontamination Work...

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Japan's Energy Source Dilemma 4 Yr After Fukushima

2015-03-08 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Economy Watch: Four years after the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, Japan's leaders and citizens still face many complex challenges. Among these, none is more complicated than the issue of nuclear power. Concerns remain about the containment of radioactive waste and the progress of decommissioning the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. Periodic media reports of radioactive water spilling into the Pacific Ocean have not inspired confidence. Instead, they directly undermine Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's...

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Offshore Wind-Power Prototype Advancing at Fukushima

2015-03-03 21:43:04| ENR.com: Headline News

After a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, triggered a tsunami and knocked a nuclear power plant off line, the Japanese government was quick to seek alternative means of generating electricity.

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Fresh radiation leak reported at Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan

2015-02-23 01:00:00| Power Technology

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) has identified a fresh leak of radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.

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Fukushima nuclear plant detects fresh leak of radioactive water

2015-02-22 12:49:40| Energy - Topix.net

Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant's operator announced on Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to a nearby bay, detected contamination levels up to 70 times greater than the already high radioactive status seen at the plant campus.

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