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Japan: Fukushima Fishermen Ruined by Tepco Now Key in Radiation Fight
2013-08-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) ruined the livelihoods of the commercial fishermen that trawled the seas off Fukushima prefecture when its leaking reactors poisoned the fishing grounds. The utility now needs their help. At issue is a series of wells and pipes built by Tokyo Electric to alter the course of groundwater flowing from the hills behind the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station. The bypass, which is ready to operate, will divert water away from the plants damaged reactors and into...
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Fukushima keeps on leaking, Japan keeps on issuing confusing explanations
2013-08-28 22:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Problems continue to burble up at Japans crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant - or, in this case, gush out. We learned last month that contaminated water has been leaking from the plant into the sea at a rate of about 300 tons a day. Then last week came word of a more serious spill of 300 tons of extremely radioactive water, which the government classified as a level 3 incident on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. The scale runs from zero, where everything is peachy,...
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Japan: Fukushima spill: Who should clean up the mess?
2013-08-28 14:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The Japanese government has said it will step up its involvement amid concerns that Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), the crippled plant's operator, has largely bungled the containment of leaking radioactive water. But some say it's too little, too late, and a Japanese official reiterated Wednesday that Tepco is ultimately responsible for the Fukushima problem. This is Tepcos plant," Tatsuya Shinkawa, director of the nuclear accident response office at Japan's ministry of economy, trade...
Japan: TEPCO Handling Fukushima Water Leaks 'Like Whack-a-Mole'
2013-08-27 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: TEPCO's handling of radioactive water at Fukushima has been like "whack-a-mole", a minister said Monday after visiting the battered plant, pledging Japan's government would step up its involvement at the site. The colourful comments come after 300 tonnes of toxic liquid was found to have leaked from one of the hundreds of tanks storing heavily polluted water used to cool broken reactors at the plant. "With regard to TEPCO's handling of contaminated water, it has been just like whack-a-mole,"...
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Fukushima Leaks Prompt Government to Emergency Measures
2013-08-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Japans government will lead emergency measures to tackle radioactive water spills at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, wresting control of the disaster recovery from the plants heavily criticized operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) Weve allowed Tokyo Electric to deal with the contaminated water situation on its own and theyve essentially turned it into a game of Whack-a-Mole, Trade Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told reporters today at Fukushima. From now on, the government will...
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