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Damaged Nuclear Plant in Japan Leaks Toxic Water
2013-04-06 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Tens of thousands of gallons of radioactive water leaked from a large underground storage pool at Japans crippled nuclear plant, and thousands more gallons could seep out before the faulty pool can be emptied, the plants operator said Saturday. About 120 tons, or almost 32,000 gallons, of highly contaminated water appeared to have breached the inner protective lining of the pool at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, said the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company. It was unclear how much of the water...
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Japan: Fukushima nuclear cooling system restored after outage
2013-04-05 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Friday it lost the ability to cool radioactive fuel rods in one of the plant's crippled reactors for about three hours earlier in the day. It was the second failure of the system to circulate seawater to cool spent fuel rods at the plant in the past three weeks. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it was alerted by an alarm that the cooling system for the No. 3 reactor had shut down at around 2:27 p.m. (0527 GMT) after a...
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Japan: Tug-of-War Over Nuclear Future
2013-03-26 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Pushed and pulled in opposite directions, the future of Japan's energy plans in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant two years ago is emerging as a fight between national economic advancement and what anti-nuke activists call "the lives of the people". "The tug-of-war between the government and opponents of nuclear power has become an excruciatingly difficult issue in Japan," Professor Takao Kashiwage, nuclear technology expert at the prestigious Tokyo Institute...
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Japan: Power Blackout Halts Cooling at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
2013-03-18 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A power blackout occurred today at Japan`s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, knocking out the system that cools four pools of water holding spent fuel rods. Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, said the blackout took place just before 7 pm Monday. The affected system is used to cool three pools containing about 2,100 spent fuel rods from the plant`s number 1, 3, and 4 reactors, which suffered core meltdowns in the week following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that...
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Japan faces higher fuel bill as nuclear shutdown enters third year
2013-03-14 05:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The restart of Japan's nuclear power industry is proving pivotal to the economic vision of the country's prime minister as soaring fuel bills after the Fukushima disaster threaten to keep the country's trade in a deeper deficit for longer. As Japan marks the second anniversary this week of a crisis that scarred the nation, the fuel bills to pay for lost atomic output are leaving their own scars on the economy, partly owing to Abe's own making. His mix of economic policies - dubbed Abenomics...
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