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Fukushima horse breeder braves high radiation levels to care for animals
2013-10-27 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Until March 2011, Tokue Hosokawa had only to peer through the window of his home in Iitate village to confirm that all was well with his 100-year-old family business. The 130 or so horses that once roamed this sprawling farm in Fukushima prefecture have sustained three generations of Hosokawa's family. Some were sold for their meat a local delicacy but his animals were better known for their appearances in commercials, period TV dramas and films, and local festivals celebrating the region's...
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7.3 Japan Earthquake Prompts Tsunami Warning, Fukushima on Alert
2013-10-25 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A tsunami warning has been issued for the northeastern coast of Japan after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck at sea early Saturday morning Japan time, Friday afternoon EDT Fukushima prefecture, including the patch of coast home to the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor, which was destroyed by a tsunami in 2011, is included in the tsunami warning. Tsunami as high as 1 meter (about 3 feet) could reach Japan's coast, according to reports, though waves of that height have yet to be reported....
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Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters
2013-10-25 07:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks. Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of 2012. Instead, when he turned up for work, he was handed off through a web of contractors and assigned, to his surprise, to one of Fukushima's hottest radiation zones. He was told he would have to wear an oxygen tank and a double-layer...
Tokyo, Fukushima Brace for Typhoon of the Decade
2013-10-15 19:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: okyo is bracing itself for the landfall of Typhoon Wipha, which is expected to arrive Wednesday with the strength of a Category 1 hurricane before it moves north along the Japan coast toward the beleaguered Fukushima nuclear campus. Tokyo's 30 million residents -- packed into one of the most densely populated areas in the world -- may face cancellations of public transportation services and other disruptions during rush hour Wednesday morning. Japan's Meteorological Agency said that the storm will...
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Radiation levels near Japan's damaged Fukushima reactor hit two-year high
2013-10-10 06:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Radiation levels in seawater just outside one of the damaged Fukushima reactors spiked this week to the highest level in two years, the operator of the crippled Japanese nuclear plant said on Thursday. Radiation levels on Wednesday, the day six workers were exposed to highly radioactive water, jumped 13 times the previous day's reading, the highest levels since late 2011. A massive quake and tsunami hit the power station, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co, also known as Tepco, in March 2011,...
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