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Japan Takes First Step to a Permanent Reactor Shutdown After Fukushima

2013-05-16 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Experts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan's west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Mothballing the reactor at Japan's oldest nuclear station would be the most stringent measure adopted in Japan since the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station north of Tokyo exposed failings in nuclear oversight. The experts' finding...

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Japans Fukushima Faces Long Road to Repair

2013-05-06 04:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: The cleanup after the catastrophic nuclear accident two years ago at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is not going well. Radioactive cooling water is leaking into the ground from at least three vast storage tanks, and the vulnerability of the plant to further accidents was revealed when a rat chewed through an electric cable, cutting off vital cooling. Those setbacks came as a 12-man team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna toured the stricken plants to assess the...

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Japan: Fukushima nuclear cooling system offline for third time in five weeks

2013-04-22 09:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant halted cooling of a spent fuel pool at the site on Monday to remove two dead rats, the third time cooling equipment has gone offline in five weeks because of rodents. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said it halted cooling of the No. 2 unit pool, which stores spent uranium fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site, for a few hours to remove the rats and install a net to stop further such intrusions. Last month, Tepco lost power to cool fuel...

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Nuclear fuel leaves French port for Japan, first since Fukushima

2013-04-18 12:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A shipment of highly radioactive nuclear fuel to Japan left the port of Cherbourg in northern France on Wednesday for the first time since the Fukushima disaster, French energy group Areva said on Thursday. The shipment of mixed oxide fuel (MOX) is likely to be controversial in Japan, where public opposition to nuclear power and reactor restarts remains strong a month after the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011 catastrophe. France's state-owned nuclear group, whose activities range from...

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