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Japan finds scrapping nuclear boosts pollution, fuel cost
2013-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Japan is finding the alternatives to nuclear power pollute more or come with higher fuel costs, limiting Prime Minister Shinzo Abes scope to reshape the energy industry almost three years after the meltdown in Fukushima. The government is due to publish today its first draft proposals on how to secure future power supplies as the reactors that provided more than a quarter of Japans electricity before the earthquake in 2011 remain closed. With 50 atomic plants off-line, coal use rose 26 percent...
Japan to Announce Nuclear Power Is Still 'Important' in Draft Energy Plan
2013-12-06 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: The Abe administration plans to say in a draft of the national medium-term energy plan that nuclear power should continue to be "important" in supplying electricity despite the Fukushima nuclear crisis, sources said. The draft was to be presented Friday to a meeting of a panel tasked with compiling the so Basic Energy Plan before the end of December. The plan will become official after securing Cabinet approval, possibly early in the new year. According to the sources, the draft will say nuclear...
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Japan nuclear plant to begin removing fuel rods
2013-11-18 05:48:53| Energy - Topix.net
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says workers will begin removing radioactive fuel rods Monday from one of four reactors at its crippled nuclear power plant.
Film director urges Japan to improve nuclear power
2013-10-21 22:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Assocated Press: Dressed in white hazmat coveralls and carrying a dosimeter, documentary film director Robert Stone ventured into the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant's exclusion zone a year after a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in three reactors. As he encountered abandoned homes, shops and toppled cars in the scene in his new film "Pandora's Promise," Stone asked a traveling companion, "So, are you still pro-nuclear?" Stone, a British filmmaker based in New York, confronts viewers with...
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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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