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Ex-US regulator: Fukushima cleanup complicated
2013-09-13 13:05:07| Energy - Topix.net
A former U.S. nuclear regulator says cleaning up the wrecked Fukushima plant is a bigger challenge than the work he led at Three Mile Island and that ongoing radioactive water leaks are a minor part of that task.
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French Fukushima cartoon offends Japan
2013-09-12 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Japan is to lodge an official complaint about a cartoon in a French newspaper that links the Fukushima nuclear disaster with Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics. The cartoon, which appeared on Wednesday in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine, shows two sumo wrestlers each with an extra arm or leg with the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the background. At the edge of the panel, a TV announcer dressed in a hazardous materials suit says: "Marvellous! Thanks...
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Japan: Tritium levels spike at stricken Fukushima nuclear plant
2013-09-11 12:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said levels of tritium - considered one of the least harmful radioactive elements - spiked more than 15 times in groundwater near a leaked tank at the facility over three days this week. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said tritium levels in water taken from a well close to a number of storage tanks holding irradiated water rose to 64,000 becquerels per liter on Tuesday from 4,200 becquerels/liter at the same location on Sunday. Tepco said...
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Japan's Government Takes Over the Fukushima Cleanup
2013-09-11 00:24:30| ENR.com: Headline News
Japanese leaders announced that they will use ground freezing to isolate the troubled Fukushima nuclear powerplant.
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Insight: Japan ponders Fukushima options, but Tepco too big to fail
2013-09-10 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fukushima nuclear plant operator Tepco Electric's response to the world's worst atomic disaster in a quarter century has been called ad hoc and more concerned with cost than safety, but 30 months later, the utility is still in charge. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in the centerpiece of Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics, said he would be personally responsible for a plan to cope with the legacy of the March 2011 disaster in which a massive earthquake and tsunami caused triple meltdowns,...
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