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Fukushima: coming clean
2013-11-20 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Editorial: Like Chernobyl, Three Mile Island or any other major nuclear accident, Fukushima Daiichi will be with us for decades to come. The entire plant is being decommissioned, a clean-up they reckon could take 40 years. After a disaster of these proportions, when three reactors suffered meltdowns after being hit by a giant tsunami, nothing its operator does or says today is taken at face value in Japan. The ability of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to handle the build-up of toxic water used to...
Fukushima nuclear disaster is warning to the world, says power company boss
2013-11-19 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The catastrophic triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 was "a warning to the world" about the hazards of nuclear power and contained lessons for the British government as it plans a new generation of nuclear power stations, the man with overall responsibility for the operation in Japan has told the Guardian. Speaking at his Tokyo corporate headquarters , Naomi Hirose, president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which runs the stricken Fukushima plant,...
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Uncertainties abound in Fukushima decommissioning
2013-11-19 13:16:08| Energy - Topix.net
In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, the damaged Unit 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan.
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Fukushima fallout damaged thyroid glands of California babies
2013-11-19 11:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. A new study of the effects of tiny quantities of radioactive fallout from Fukushima on the health of babies born in California shows a significant excess of hypothyroidism caused by the radioactive contamination travelling 5,000 miles across the Pacific. The article will be published next week in the peer-reviewed journal Open...
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Fukushima operators set to remove fuel rods
2013-11-18 09:58:33| Energy - Topix.net
Operators of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan will begin the dangerous task of removing fuel rods from a damaged reactor, the Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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