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Finland seeks lessons after Fukushima on nuclear complacency culture
2013-09-06 09:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Finland is pushing to ensure that complacency does not threaten its nuclear safety record as it builds new reactors despite the Fukushima disaster, which has made some other European states think twice about atomic energy. The head of Finland's nuclear safety body, Petteri Tiippana, said cultural as well as technical lessons had to be learnt from the crisis in Japan, the worst in a quarter of a century. "It was said in a report in Japan that the underlying causes of the accident had to do with...
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Ice Wall Offers Thin Hope for Fukushima Recovery
2013-09-04 18:33:43| TechNewsWorld
The Japanese government on Tuesday announced it would be allocating $473 million to help the operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant build an ice wall to prevent water being used to cool it from poisoning the surrounding groundwater. However, the proposal would be at best a short-term solution to the troubled facility's problems stemming from a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Fukushima farce reveals nuclear industry's fatal flaw
2013-09-04 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Once upon a time, when the nuclear industry was shiny and new, it simply burned uranium. Now, old and tarnished, it burns money. From the promise of nuclear electricity being too cheap to meter, we now have costs that are too great to count. At the site of the Fukushima meltdown in Japan, the government is being forced to spend over 200m on a fanciful-sounding underground ice wall in the latest desperate attempt to halt the radiation-contaminated water that is leaking into the sea. When mere...
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Radiation spike near Fukushima tanks
2013-09-04 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Radiation levels around tanks storing contaminated water at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have risen by a fifth to a new high, officials say. Ground readings near one set of tanks stood at 2,200 millisieverts (mSv) on Tuesday, the plant operator and Japan's nuclear authority said. Saturday's reading was 1,800 mSv. Last month, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said it had found highly contaminated water leaking from a storage tank. Other leaks have also been...
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Fukushima hits new toxic high
2013-09-04 10:11:47| Energy - Topix.net
Radiation readings near tanks holding toxic water at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant have jumped to a new high, the plant operator said Wednesday.
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