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Japan Plan Restart Nuke Plants Ignores Lessons Learned From Fukushima

2014-07-16 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: The decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) to approve the draft assessment for the two Sendai nuclear reactors in Kyushu is a clear and dangerous signal that Japan`s nuclear village--industry, regulators and government--is deliberately and cynically ignoring the lessons of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The approval of the assessment is the first step in restarting the Sendai reactors. The two Sendai reactors have been shutdown since 2011. These are old reactors--29 and 30 years respectively....

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Doubts over ice wall keep Fukushima safe from damaged nuclear reactors

2014-07-13 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: In fading light and just a stone's throw from the most terrifying scenes during Japan's worst nuclear accident, engineers resumed their race against time to defeat the next big threat: thousands of tonnes of irradiated water. If all goes to plan, by next March Fukushima Daiichi's four damaged reactors will be surrounded by an underground frozen wall that will be a barrier between highly toxic water used to cool melted fuel inside reactor basements and clean groundwater flowing in from surrounding...

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Fukushima Workers Quit Japan Utility in Droves Over Stigma, Pay Cuts

2014-07-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Stigma, pay cuts and risk of radiation exposure are among the reasons why 3,000 employees have left the utility at the center of Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster. Now there's an additional factor: better-paying jobs in the feel-good solar energy industry. Engineers and other employees at TEPCO, or Tokyo Electric Power Co., were once mainstays of Japan's corporate culture, which is famous for prizing loyalty to a single company and lifetime employment with it. But the March 2011 tsunami that swamped...

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Fukushima operator restarts water decontamination system

2014-06-22 20:50:19| Energy - Topix.net

Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday restarted its trouble-plagued water decontamination system for the first time in three months, the utility said.

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Fukushima operator struggles to build ice wall to contain radioactive water

2014-06-17 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: The operator of Japan's battered Fukushima nuclear power plant has said it is having trouble with the early stages of an ice wall being built under broken reactors to contain radioactive water. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) has begun digging the trenches for a huge network of pipes under the plant through which it intends to pass refrigerant. This will freeze the soil and form a physical barrier that is intended to prevent clean groundwater flowing down mountainsides from mixing with contaminated...

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