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Govt. releases more accounts of Fukushima disaster
2014-12-26 03:43:02| Energy - Topix.net
The Japanese government has released more interview accounts of the 2011 nuclear accident. 772 interviews were conducted in 2011 and 2012 by a government committee that investigated the disaster.
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Japan: Fukushima and institutional invisibility of nuclear disaster
2014-12-20 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: The nuclear industry and its supporters have contrived a variety of narratives to justify and explain away nuclear catastrophes, writes John Downer. None of them actually hold water, yet they serve their purpose - to command political and media heights, and reassure public sentiment on 'safety'. But if it's so safe, why the low limits on nuclear liabilities? In a truly competitive marketplace, unfettered by subsidies, no one would have built a nuclear reactor in the past, no one would build one...
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Fukushima Radiation in West Coast Waters is Harmless, Say Experts
2014-11-11 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Monitoring efforts taken along the West Coast of the United States and Canada have revealed that radiation from the 2011 Fukushima Daiiachi nuclear power plant disaster is still washing in. However, don't let the media hype fool you. Experts are quick to add that the trace amounts of radiation discovered is completely harmless to humans. In fact, according to Ken Buesseler, a chemist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the telltale radioactive compound that was detected, called...
Fukushima Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project Update
2014-11-01 02:34:51| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
A consortium comprised of Marubeni , the University of Tokyo , Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan Marine United, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu, and Mizuho Information & Research, has been participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm project sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry since March 2012. Preparatory works for the installation of the 7MW oil pressure drive-type wind turbine on the three-column semi-sub floater at Onahama port, Fukushima, are almost completed and delivery of the floater from Nagasaki to Onahama has started today as part of the second term.
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After Fukushima, Japan gets green boom _ and glut
2014-10-30 10:28:32| Telecom - Topix.net
This undated aerial photo released by Softbank Corp. shows the Japanese telecommunications and Internet company's Tottori-Yonago Solar Park which started commercial operation on Feb. 1, 2014 in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan. Softbank Corp., which has bought Sprint Corp. of the U.S., moved into the solar business after the Fukushima crisis.
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