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Regional Disaster Debris Management Planning Project: Stakeholder Meeting #2 Summary
2013-11-15 23:00:14| PortlandOnline
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Some spent fuel rods at Fukushima were damaged before 2011 disaster
2013-11-14 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three of the spent fuel assemblies due to be carefully plucked from the crippled Japanese nuclear plant at Fukushima in a hazardous year-long operation were damaged even before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that knocked out the facility. The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, said the damaged assemblies - 4.5 meter high racks containing 50-70 thin rods of highly irradiated used fuel - can't be removed from Fukushima's Reactor No. 4 using the large cask assigned to taking out...
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PepsiCo donates $1m to Philippines Typhoon Haiyan disaster relief
2013-11-13 21:38:49| Beverages - Topix.net
PepsiCo will donate $1m to support disaster relief and recovery efforts across the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
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Typhoon Haiyan: Disaster should end climate change debate says World Bank President
2013-11-12 23:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Tuesday that the deadly typhoon disaster in the Philippines should put an end to "silly" arguments denying climate change. "If you think of the number of storms that have hit over the past year, the severity of those storms... The frequency of these events is increasing and that's exactly what the climate change scientists have predicted," Mr Kim said. "What I hope the tragedy in the Philippines helps us to do is to move away from having what I think are silly...
Little Preparation for a Great Disaster
2013-11-12 08:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Despite the government's early warnings and evacuation of up to 800,000 people from vulnerable areas, the category 5 -- the highest level -- Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda to Filipinos) has left some communities and coastal zones in the central Philippine islands of Visayas in complete ruins. Widely characterised as history's strongest-ever typhoon, Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines on Nov. 8, slightly weakening before claiming the lives of thousands of people and inflicting severe economic damage...
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