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Radiation readings spike at water tank at Japan's ruined nuclear plant
2013-09-01 07:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Radiation near a tank holding highly contaminated water at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has spiked 18-fold, the plant's operator said on Sunday, highlighting the struggle to bring the crisis under control after more than two years. Radiation of 1,800 millisieverts per hour - enough to kill an exposed person in four hours - was detected near the bottom of one storage tank on Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co, also known as Tepco, said. An August 22 readings measured radiation of...
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Operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant cites seam problem as possible cause of ta...
2013-08-24 20:54:21| Energy - Topix.net
The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant says deteriorated seams and a possible contortion of a tank might have caused a recent massive contaminated water leak.
Ford Is Still Angry About Japan's Yen
2013-08-24 20:34:20| Automakers - Topix.net
Ford's strong new Fusion has been stealing sales from Toyota's Camry all year -- but now Toyota is in a prime position to push back, thanks to the Japanese government.
Dogfight over Tokyo: Japan's big airlines vie for landing rights
2013-08-19 01:18:33| Airlines - Topix.net
The two carriers have locked horns for decades at home, but this clash threatens to take on an international dimension by embroiling British Airways of taxpayer money to bail out a bankrupt JAL and says now it is payback-time for the helping hand given to its rival.
Insight: After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan's nuclear clean-up
2013-08-14 03:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large...
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