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Stigmatized nuclear workers quit Japan utility
2014-07-10 09:10:04| Energy - Topix.net
In this June 19, 2014 photo, Sean Travers, Japan president of EarthStream, poses for photos at his office in Tokyo.
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Another Japan nuclear operator turns to government for aid
2014-04-02 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's Kyushu Electric Power Co has become the second nuclear generator to seek state support this week as reactors across the country remain idled and industry losses mount three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Kyushu Electric, a regional monopoly that supplies power in southern Japan, said on Wednesday it was in talks with state-owned Development Bank of Japan for financial backing. On Tuesday, a source said Hokkaido Electric Power Co, which supplies Japan's northernmost island,...
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China says Japan nuclear stockpile move step in right direction
2014-03-25 13:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China said on Tuesday that Japan's agreeing to turn over sensitive nuclear material of potential use in bombs to the United States was a step in the right direction, but that it had other material it still needed to hand over. The leaders of Japan and the United States, meeting at a nuclear security summit in the Netherlands, said that hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of material of potential use would be downgraded and disposed of. "China welcomes the reaching of this deal," the Foreign Ministry...
Japan to turn over nuclear stockpile to U.S. for downgrading
2014-03-24 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: apan will turn over hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of sensitive nuclear material of potential use in bombs to the United States to be downgraded and disposed of, the two countries' leaders said as a nuclear security summit began on Monday. China had voiced concern earlier this year about regional rival Japan's holding of plutonium but Washington and the United Nations nuclear agency have made it clear they are not worried about the way Tokyo is handling the issue. Still, U.S. President Barack Obama...
Japan Ponders Lessons Quake, Tsunami, Nuclear Meltdown
2014-03-11 21:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Japan`s Emperor and Empress, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and representatives of those who lost family members gathered in Tokyo today to observe the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 that caused one of the world`s worst nuclear disasters at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The participants were silent for a moment at 2:46 PM, the time the earthquake struck three years ago, unleashing a tsunami that swamped the nuclear plant owned and operated by Tokyo Electric...
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