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Fukushima in New York? This Nuclear Plant Has Regulators Nervous
2016-07-29 14:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A new documentary explores the fight around Indian Point Energy Center in the wake of Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster. Could what happened in Fukushima happen 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of New York City? That's what many activists and former nuclear regulators fear for the Indian Point Energy Center, a nuclear power plant that has operated in Westchester County for more than four decades. The plant provides a good chunk of the energy needs for the surrounding area, but it has come under fire...
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JFN receives contract for Mitsubishis Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan
2016-07-18 01:00:00| Power Technology
UK-based decommissioning and remote handling company James Fisher Nuclear (JFN) has secured a new high-value contract from engineering company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).
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Japan: Fukushima and the oceans: What do we know, five years on?
2016-07-01 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A major international review of the state of the oceans 5 years after the Fukushima disaster shows that radiation levels are decreasing rapidly except in the harbour area close to the nuclear plant itself where ongoing releases remain a concern. At the same time, the review's lead author expresses concern at the lack of ongoing support to continue the radiation assessment, which he says is vital to understand how the risks are changing. These are the conclusions of a major 5 year review, with...
Fukushima: Worse Than a Disaster
2016-06-08 00:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CounterPunch: Disasters can be cleaned up. Naohiro Masuda, TEPCO Chief of Decommissioning at Fukushima Diiachi Nuclear Power Plant, finally publicly officially announced that 600 tons of hot molten core, or corium, is missing (Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Says 600 Tons of Melted Fuels is Missing, Epoch Times, May 24, 2016). Now what? According to Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), it is not likely the fuel will ever be recovered: Nobody really knows where...
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Japan: 600 tons of melted radioactive Fukushima fuel still not found, clean-up chief reveals
2016-05-25 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RT: The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning told the ABC's Foreign Correspondent program in an exclusive interview. The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from 2021, the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) chief of decommissioning at Fukushima, Naohiro Masuda, revealed. The fuel extraction technology is yet to be elaborated upon,...
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