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Japan: TEPCO Handling Fukushima Water Leaks 'Like Whack-a-Mole'
2013-08-27 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: TEPCO's handling of radioactive water at Fukushima has been like "whack-a-mole", a minister said Monday after visiting the battered plant, pledging Japan's government would step up its involvement at the site. The colourful comments come after 300 tonnes of toxic liquid was found to have leaked from one of the hundreds of tanks storing heavily polluted water used to cool broken reactors at the plant. "With regard to TEPCO's handling of contaminated water, it has been just like whack-a-mole,"...
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Japan official pledges government action to stop leaks of radioactive water from nuclear plant
2013-08-26 13:17:27| Energy - Topix.net
Japan's industry minister visited the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant and promised Monday that the government would take urgent action to curb leaks of radiation-contaminated water.
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Fukushima Leaks Prompt Government to Emergency Measures
2013-08-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Japans government will lead emergency measures to tackle radioactive water spills at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, wresting control of the disaster recovery from the plants heavily criticized operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) Weve allowed Tokyo Electric to deal with the contaminated water situation on its own and theyve essentially turned it into a game of Whack-a-Mole, Trade Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told reporters today at Fukushima. From now on, the government will...
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Climate leaks are 'misleading' says IPCC ahead of major report
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned against drawing too many conclusions from the latest leaked version of its upcoming, and eagerly awaited, Assessment Report 5 (AR5). This massive tome will be published in four stages over the next year - the first part, the physical science behind climate change, will be presented in Stockholm on 26 September. The process of compiling this report - with several hundred scientists, 195 governments and over 100 non-governmental...
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China says 'shocked' by continuing Japan radiation leaks
2013-08-21 08:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China was "shocked" that Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant was still leaking radioactive water two years after it was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. China "hopes that the Japanese side can earnestly take effective steps to put an end to the negative impact of the after-effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident", the Foreign Ministry said in a statement faxed to Reuters.
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