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Operator of wrecked Japan nuclear plant pledges improvements
2013-10-15 13:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, under fire to put right repeated contamination mishaps, promised on Tuesday to draft in extra workers and improve equipment as part of plans to make the site safe and keep the company solvent. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, has been reprimanded twice in as many months by Japan's nuclear regulator for mismanagement in a cleanup operation more than 2 1/2 years after the Fukushima Daiichi plant was struck by an earthquake and tsunami....
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Japan fast-food chain to grow food 100 km from wrecked nuclear plant
2013-10-02 11:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Japanese fast-food chain has announced plans to grow rice and vegetables on a farm 100 km (60 miles) from the crippled Fukushima power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Yoshinoya Holdings, which sells "gyudon", or stewed beef over rice, has formed a joint-venture with local farmers to grow onions, cabbage and rice for use in outlets across the country. About 160,000 people nearest the plant were ordered to move out and the government established a...
Japan: Wrecked Fukushima plant springs highly radioactive water leak
2013-08-20 08:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The storage tank breach of about 300 tons of water is separate from contaminated water leaks reported in recent weeks, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Tuesday. The latest leak, which is continuing, is so contaminated that a person standing 50 centimeters...
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N.Y. boardwalk wrecked by Sandy to be razed
2013-01-03 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: Workers will begin to demolish a famed boardwalk in Long Beach, New York on Saturday, city officials announced Wednesday. The more than two-mile stretch of wood and concrete along the beachfront was badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy, and Long Beach's city council decided to tear down the entire structure last month. "It looks like King Kong came in and ripped up the whole place," said Barbara Herr, who has visited Long Beach for 15 years. An American flag and a holiday wreath hang on a pile...
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