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Fukushima Nightmare Continues as Homeless People Recruited for Cleanup, Scammed Out of Wages
2013-12-30 17:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Police and media in Japan have discovered that homeless people near Fukushima have been recruited to help clean up the three-year-old nuclear devastation for minimum wages, but haven`t seen most of their money. Most have wound up in debt. According to Reuters, recruiters like Seiji Sasa have been trolling Sendai Station another locations for homeless people to aid in the behind-schedule, taxpayer-funded radioactive cleanup throughout northern Japan. Police arrested members of Japanese crime...
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70+ USS Ronald Reagan Crew Members, Half Suffering From Cancer, to Sue TEPCO For Fukushima
2013-12-27 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: After U.S. Navy sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan for four days, many returned to the U.S. with thyroid cancer, Leukemia, brain tumors and more. At least 71 sailors--many in their 20s--reported radiation sickness and will file a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant. The men and women accuse TEPCO of downplaying the danger of nuclear radiation on the site. The water contaminated the...
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Japanese gov't to pay more for Fukushima cleanup
2013-12-20 14:14:56| Energy - Topix.net
Japan's government announced Friday that it will increase the amount of money it's providing to the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to step up cleanup and reconstruction efforts.
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Japanese Government to Bear More Fukushima Cleanup Costs for Tepco
2013-12-20 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan will chip in more taxpayer money and other financial support to help Fukushima plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co clean up the world's worst nuclear disaster in a quarter century, officials said on Friday, the latest government lifeline for the embattled utility. Criticism of the utility's handling of the massive clean-up from the March 2011 disaster had sparked calls to spin off Fukushima-related work and place it under government control or even put Tepco, as the company is known,...
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Fukushima Nuclear Operator Tepco to Close Two More Reactors in Japan
2013-12-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The operators of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan are to decommission two reactors that were not badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. They have bowed to public pressure that the plant be shut permanently. Workers are still struggling to stem leaks of contaminated water, and have begun to remove fuel rods from a storage pond at a reactor building. Four reactors were severely damaged by the disaster that struck in March 2011. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco)...
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