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Former Tepco execs indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster
2016-02-29 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A worker, wearing a protective suit and a mask, is seen from a bus near the No. 3 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016. Reuters/Toru Hanai TOKYO Three former Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) executives were indicted on Monday for failing to take safety measures to prevent the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, a Tokyo District Court official said. ...
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Greenpeace Launches Investigation Into Radiation Impacts of Fukushima Disaster on Pacific Ocean
2016-02-26 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Greenpeace Japan today announced it is conducting an underwater investigation into radiation contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The survey will be conducted from a Japanese research vessel using a one of a kind Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), fitted with sensitive gamma radiation spectrometer and sediment sampler. On the opening day of the investigation, Mr Naoto Kan, the former Prime Minister of Japan and leader at the time of the nuclear accident,...
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Nuclear water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis
2016-02-25 09:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fish market vendor Satoshi Nakano knows which fish caught in the radiation tainted sea off the Fukushima coast should be kept away from dinner tables. Yet five years after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl there is still no consensus on the true extent of the damage -- exacerbating consumer fears about what is safe to eat. Environmentalists are at odds with authorities, warning the huge amounts of radiation that seeped into coastal waters after a powerful tsunami caused a meltdown...
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Fukushima meltdown announcement 'delayed'
2016-02-25 05:32:04| Energy - Topix.net
The reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant hit by a devastating tsunami in 2011 should have been announced much sooner, the operator admitted this week. In a statement, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said that a public declaration of the meltdown should have been done within days of the disaster.
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As memory of Chernobyl, Fukushima fades, activists renew nuclear warning
2016-01-29 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: As aides escorted him past swaying chandeliers to a panic room, the mind of Japan`s prime minister flashed to his country`s seaside nuclear power stations. Tremors in Tokyo meant tsunamis, Naoto Kan, a physics graduate, feared. It was 11 March 2011. The next day 250km north-east of the capital, three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant went into meltdown as cooling systems failed. Large explosions shot radioactive materials into the atmosphere following a barrage by 20-metre waves. Over...
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