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'Something Like Steam' Still Billowing from Fukushima
2013-07-24 04:32:49| Energy - Topix.net
"Something like steam" continued to billow out of Fukushima's nuclear reactor 3 building on Tuesday morning, the Tokyo Electric Power Co.
VIDEO: New worries for Fukushima workers
2013-07-24 03:07:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan say they have seen steam rising from one of the damaged reactor buildings, for the second time in less than a week.
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Japan's Fukushima operator acknowledges contaminated water flowing into sea
2013-07-22 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Monday that contaminated ground water had likely been flowing into the sea, acknowledging such a leakage for the first time. Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, made the announcement a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pro-nuclear Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner scored a decisive victory in elections to the upper house, cementing his grip on power. The head of Japan's new Nuclear Regulation...
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Japan: Thyroid Cancer Risk Jumps 10-fold for Fukushima Workers
2013-07-20 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Close to 10 percent of the nearly 20,000 people who have worked at Japan's wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station face an elevated risk of developing thyroid cancer, the power plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported Friday. TEPCO said 1,973 people employed in emergency crews involved in the clean-up since the meltdowns at the nuclear plant were exposed to enough radiation to cause potential problems, the AFP reported. Each of these emergency workers was exposed...
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Steam Rising from Crippled Fukushima Reactor Causes Concern
2013-07-18 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) suspect that steam rising out of the top of a destroyed nuclear reactor at the beleaguered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear campus is the result of rainwater somehow making its way into the building, but workers onsite are prepared to douse the reactor with boric acid, should a sustained nuclear reaction begin to occur. At the beginning of the day Thursday, a TEPCO worker preparing for debris removal work encountered a "steam-like gas" wafting through...
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