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Japan: TEPCO Handling Fukushima Water Leaks 'Like Whack-a-Mole'
2013-08-27 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: TEPCO's handling of radioactive water at Fukushima has been like "whack-a-mole", a minister said Monday after visiting the battered plant, pledging Japan's government would step up its involvement at the site. The colourful comments come after 300 tonnes of toxic liquid was found to have leaked from one of the hundreds of tanks storing heavily polluted water used to cool broken reactors at the plant. "With regard to TEPCO's handling of contaminated water, it has been just like whack-a-mole,"...
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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...
VIDEO: Tepco to get more government help
2013-08-08 03:47:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Japanese government will provide more help to Tepco, the company that owns the Fukushima nuclear plant that was crippled by the 2011's earthquake and tsunami.
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Japan must support Tepco in containing Fukushima water problem: Suga
2013-08-07 04:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's government must support the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in its efforts to contain buildups and leaks of radioactive water at the facility, the top government spokesman said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will order the government later in the day to strengthen its response on water containment, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, indicating the government will get directly involved in combating the worsening problem. "It is necessary for the country...
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Japan government considering support for Tepco on Fukushima water problem: METI official
2013-08-07 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Japanese government is considering whether to support Tokyo Electric Power Co Ltd, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, in dealing with the growing toxic water problem on the site, an official at the economy and trade ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry takes the water problem "very seriously" and is mulling ways to assist the beleaguered utility, said the government official, who declined to be named. The official did not confirm whether government support would be paid...
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