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Japan allows people to return to Fukushima disaster 'hot zone'
2014-03-31 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For the first time since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster more than three years ago, residents of a small district 20 km (12 miles) from the wrecked plant are about to be allowed to return home. The Miyakoji area of Tamura, a northeastern city inland from the Fukushima nuclear station, has been off-limits for most residents since March 2011, when the government ordered evacuations after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a triple meltdown at the power plant. Tuesday's reopening...
Fukushima worker killed in accident, cleanup halted
2014-03-28 23:51:01| Energy - Topix.net
A worker at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant died on Friday after being buried under gravel while digging a ditch, prompting the operator to suspend cleanup work for safety checks.
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Fuel removal project halted at Japan's Fukushima plant
2014-03-28 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A worker at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant died on Friday after being buried under gravel while digging a ditch, prompting the operator to suspend cleanup work for safety checks. Tokyo Electric Power Co said it was the first time a laborer had died as a direct result of an accident inside the plant since the nuclear disaster in March 2011, the world's worst since Chernobyl in 1986. An earthquake and tsunami struck the plant, 220 km (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo, sparking triple nuclear...
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Fukushima disaster protesters hold London rally after third anniversary
2014-03-18 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 100 protesters rallied in London on Saturday against nuclear power following the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Protesters held placards and banners calling for "no nuclear power", "protect mountains, rivers" and "no new nukes" with signs in English, French and Japanese. As the march progressed through central London, the crowd chanted "no more nuclear" and "no more Fukushima". The organisers hoped the march would send a message warning of the dangers of nuclear...
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Fukushima radiation: Coming to a West Coast beach near you?
2014-03-16 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: With the risk to public health extremely low, the effort is more about perfecting computer models that will better predict chemical and radiation spills in the future than bracing for a threat, researchers say. Federal agencies are not sampling at the beach. The state of Oregon is sampling, but looking for higher radiation levels closer to federal health standards, said state health physicist Daryl Leon. Washington stopped looking after early testing turned up nothing, said Washington Department...
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