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Japan's nuclear regulator raps Fukushima operator over radiation readings
2014-02-12 23:25:46| Energy - Topix.net
Japan's nuclear regulator has criticized the operator of the stricken Fukushima plant for incorrectly measuring radiation levels in contaminated groundwater at the site.
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U.S. Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File New Suit Against Tokyo Electric Power
2014-02-09 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Citing a wide range of ailments from leukemia to blindness to birth defects, 79 American veterans of 2011s earthquake/tsunami relief Operation Tomadachi ("Friendship") have filed a new $1 billion class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power. The suit includes an infant born with a genetic condition to a sailor who served on the USS Ronald Reagan as radiation poured over it during the Fukushima melt-downs, and an American teenager living near the stricken site. It has also been left open...
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Fukushima Pledges to Use 100 Percent Renewable Energy as Japan Considers Rebooting Nuclear Power
2014-02-05 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: The province of Fukushima in northeast Japan, devastated nearly three years ago by the earthquake and tsunami that caused a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, has pledged to go 100 percent renewable by 2040. The energy will be generated through local community initiatives throughout the province of nearly two million. Announced at a Community Power Conference held in Fukushima this week, it goes against Prime Minister Shinzo Abes agenda to reboot nuclear power throughout the...
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Fukushima to use 100 per cent renewable energy by 2040
2014-02-03 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco-Business: The Japanese province of Fukushima has pledged to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2040, turning its 2011 nuclear disaster into an opportunity to tackle climate change. The mayor of the region, which has a population of about two million people, hopes that community energy schemes will wean the region off fossil fuels completely in just over 25 years' time. Energy will be generated locally through community energy initiatives and will provide a clean and self-sustaining source of...
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The woman the Japanese turned to after Fukushima
2014-02-02 15:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Can it really be true that Lady Judge, a wafer-thin 68-year-old with a ruffed collar and a French bun, is the saviour of Japan's nuclear industry -- and, arguably, its economy too? Granted, the American-born Brit radiates formidability: her glance, down an immaculately powdered nose, has the penetration of a gamma ray. And she was once dubbed "The Atomic Kitten' by Private Eye. But let's face it, the Japanese aren't known for taking their problems to foreigners, especially not to women. Yet...
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