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Fukushima workers sue over pay
2014-09-03 04:58:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A group of workers decommissioning the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant sue its operator Tepco over unpaid hazard wages.
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Fukushima workers sue Tepco over unpaid wages, reliance on contractors
2014-09-03 03:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A group of Fukushima workers on Wednesday sued Tokyo Electric for unpaid wages in a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge to the utility and its reliance on contractors to shut down a nuclear plant destroyed by the industry's worst accident since Chernobyl. The lawsuit, filed by two current and two former Fukushima workers, claims that Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc and its contractors failed to ensure workers are paid promised hazard allowances, a court filing showed. The workers say...
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Fukushima accepts 'temporary' radioactive waste storage
2014-09-01 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The governor of disaster-struck Fukushima agreed Monday to accept the "temporary" storage of nuclear waste from the Japanese accident, paving the way for an end to a years-long standoff. Yuhei Sato has been cajoled and lavished with the promises of subsidies if he accepts a central government plan to build a depot on land near the battered Fukushima Daiichi plant. "I have made an agonising decision to accept plans to construct temporary storage facilities in order to achieve recovery in the...
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TVA Moves Ahead To Make Fukushima Upgrades at Nuclear Power Plants
2014-08-27 00:00:00| ENR.com: Headline News
The TVA will spend up to $266 million to make post-Fukushima upgrades at its nuclear plants.
Thyroid Cancer in Young People Surge Fukushima Since Nuclear Meltdown
2014-08-25 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown on the region`s young people is starting to add up. 104 of the area`s 300,000 young people who were under 18 at the time of the disaster have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shinbun reported yesterday. This form of cancer has been linked to radiation exposure. But, government officials in Fukushima say they do not believe the cases of thyroid gland cancer diagnosed or suspected in the 104 young people...
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