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Man dies after fall at crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
2015-01-20 09:59:52| Energy - Topix.net
A worker at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has died after falling inside a water storage tank, the facility's operator said. The man was preparing to test for leaks inside the 10-meter high tank on Monday morning, local time, when he fell, according to a statement from the Tokyo Electric Power Company .
Kurions robot arm to go live for nuclear reactor repair at Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Japan
2015-01-15 01:00:00| Power Technology
Japanese IHI has signed a contract with Kurion to develop an advanced robotic arm that can repair primary containment leaks within Unit 2 Reactor at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Dont panic! Fukushima radiation just hit the West Coast
2015-01-07 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Nuclear energy gives plenty of people the heebie-jeebies: Like horror-movie ghosts and ancestral curses, you can`t see or feel or smell it, but it can still kill you. So when Japan`s Fukushima Daiichi plant was damaged in March 2011, releasing a flood of radioactive cesium-tinged water into the Pacific, nervous nancies the world over took note. And that note, typically, was: PANIC!!!!!1!!11! First of all: No. Don`t. While some wafting fallout hit the U.S. in the first months after the disaster...
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Fukushima rice passes radiation tests for first time since disaster: official
2015-01-05 04:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fukushima rice passed Japan's radiation checks for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster that prompted international alarm over the region's produce, a prefectural official said. Fukushima official Tsuneaki Oonami said about 360,000 tonnes of rice, nearly all of last year's harvest, had been checked and none had tested above the 100 becquerels per kilogram limit set by the government. "The fact that the amount of rice that does not pass our checks has steadily reduced in the last three...
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Prosecutors won't indict former Tepco executives over Fukushima disaster
2014-12-26 07:48:12| Energy - Topix.net
Japanese prosecutors will likely decide again not to indict three former Tokyo Electric Power Co executives over their handling of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, media reported on Friday, but a rarely used citizen's panel could still force an indictment. The Tokyo District Prosecutors Office has been reinvestigating the case after a citizens' panel ruled in July that three former Tepco executives, including then-chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, should be indicted over their handling of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
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