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Leaks spur Japan's crippled nuclear plant to expand storage
2013-04-11 13:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tokyo Electric Power, the utility that operates the Japanese nuclear plant devastated two years ago by an earthquake and tsunami, is scrambling to build more tanks to safely store radioactive water after leaks were found at makeshift pits. Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant have so far filled up more than 80 percent of the 325,000 metric tons (1 metric ton = 1.102 tons) of available storage with groundwater contaminated by the damaged nuclear reactors. Leaks in the current water transfer...
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Government Report Exposes Lack of Preparedness for Nuclear Emergency
2013-04-10 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report finding that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not adequately understand the shadow evacuation phenomenon at nuclear reactors, and that its emergency planning regulations do not adequately account for the strong likelihood that far more people would evacuate, from much further distances than NRC plans, in a real nuclear emergency. The report did not cover another crucial and little-known flaw in current U.S....
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Radioactive Water Leaks From Japans Damaged Nuclear Plant
2013-04-10 03:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The Government of Japan has ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to fix fresh radioactive water leaks at its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Leaks in three underground storage pits at Fukushima Daiichi have released an estimated 32,000 gallons of radioactive water since Friday, TEPCO officials report. The underground tanks contain water that became radioactive when it was sprayed into the Fukushima Daiichi reactors continuously for months to cool the nuclear fuel after the earthquake...
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Looming mass nuclear plant retirement will push US towards total fossil fuel dependency
2013-04-09 18:07:56| Extremetech
New reports warn that we're on track for a startling spike in nuclear retirement. We're headed for a future, not so far away, filled with energy deficits, and we have no clear way of filling them.
Florida considers changes in nuclear utility rates
2013-04-09 16:05:48| Energy - Topix.net
Florida's large utility companies could be forced to change how much they charge customers for future nuclear power plants.
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