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Another contaminated water leak at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant
2013-06-05 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said it had found another leak of contaminated water on Wednesday, piling pressure on the utility to curb the problem as it seeks permission to release water to the sea. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami more than two years ago, triggering nuclear reactor meltdowns and explosions. Tokyo Electric Power, or Tepco, said a worker patrolling the area spotted the leak just after noon, with...
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Fukushima plant operator reverses claim groundwater not contaminated
2013-06-04 15:37:09| Energy - Topix.net
This handout picture, taken by Tokyo Electric Power Co on March 15, 2011, and released on Feb 1, 2013, shows white smoke rising from the unit 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture.
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Experts Foresee No Detectable Health Impact from Fukushima Radiation
2013-05-31 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The levels of exposure to radiation following the leaks and explosions at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 were so low that they led today to this important conclusion from experts convened in Vienna by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation: It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers. Scientists had met all week to make final adjustments...
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Fukushima meltdowns latest victims: American uranium jobs
2013-05-27 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In comic books, radioactive disasters make stuff be massive. But in the real world, the Fukushima meltdown of 2009 is having the opposite effect on the worldwide nuclear power sector. The sector is rapidly shrinking from the Hulk that it used to be, leading the U.S. government to announce on Friday that it is jumping out of the unprofitable uranium enrichment business. The Energy Department is closing the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in western Kentucky at the end of the month. The plant...
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Radball technology to facilitate Fukushima clean-up operation
2013-05-17 01:00:00| Power Technology
UK-based National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) has agreed to work with Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy (HGNE) and TEPCO to facilitate a clean-up operation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site in Japan.
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