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French Fukushima cartoon offends Japan
2013-09-12 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Japan is to lodge an official complaint about a cartoon in a French newspaper that links the Fukushima nuclear disaster with Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics. The cartoon, which appeared on Wednesday in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine, shows two sumo wrestlers each with an extra arm or leg with the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the background. At the edge of the panel, a TV announcer dressed in a hazardous materials suit says: "Marvellous! Thanks...
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Nuclear fuel leaves French port for Japan, first since Fukushima
2013-04-18 12:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A shipment of highly radioactive nuclear fuel to Japan left the port of Cherbourg in northern France on Wednesday for the first time since the Fukushima disaster, French energy group Areva said on Thursday. The shipment of mixed oxide fuel (MOX) is likely to be controversial in Japan, where public opposition to nuclear power and reactor restarts remains strong a month after the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011 catastrophe. France's state-owned nuclear group, whose activities range from...
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