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Quebec targets CP Railway for Lac-Megantic cleanup costs
2013-08-15 00:41:55| Railroads - Topix.net
A police officer walks amongst axle gear in Lac MA©gantic, Que., in this July 9, 2013 file photo.
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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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Japan Intervenes to Help Urgent Clean-Up of Leaking Fukushima Plant
2013-08-08 08:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: First, a rat gnawed through exposed wiring, setting off a scramble to end yet another blackout of vital cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Then, hastily built pits for a flood of contaminated water sprang leaks themselves. Now, a new rush of radioactive water has breached a barrier built to stop it, allowing heavily contaminated water to spill daily into the Pacific. As the scope of the latest crisis became clearer on Wednesday, Japans popular prime minister, Shinzo Abe, ordered...
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Japan's PM Joins Greenpeace in Signal Tepco Not Up to Cleanup
2013-08-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an unlikely companion with environment protection campaigner Greenpeace as both indicated Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) isnt up to the task of containing the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Greenpeaces comments were blunt, Abes less so, though they both agreed on the seriousness of revelations that radioactive groundwater is gushing into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled coastal atomic station north of Tokyo. At least 300 tons of water laced with strontium...
Fish Kill Spurs Cleanup of River Polluted for A Century in Spain
2013-08-06 20:25:39| ENR.com: Headline News
The $212-million dredging and treatment operation is funded by the government and the European Union, although a chemical company may also contribute, depending on legal action.
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