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Radiation discovery fans food fears in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — At a bustling Tokyo supermarket Sunday, wary shoppers avoided one particular bin of spinach. The produce came from Ibaraki prefecture in the northeast, where radiation was found in spinach grown up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) from...Tags: Cancer, Medical Procedures and Tests, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Foods and Beverages, Aquaculture
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Japan quake causes emergencies at 5 nuke reactors
Associated PressJapan declared states of emergency for five nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling ability in the aftermath of Friday's powerful earthquake. Thousands of residents were evacuated as workers struggled to get the reactors under...Tags: Cancer, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Emergency Planning, Plant Openings, Disasters
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Egyptian president asks Cabinet to resign
The Associated PressEgypt's embattled President Hosni Mubarak fired his Cabinet early Saturday and promised reforms in his first response to protesters who have mounted the biggest challenge ever to his 30-year rule. But many protesters were outraged by Mubarak's nationally...Tags: National Government, Riots, Tour Operations Industry, White House, Parties and Movements
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Radiation Levels May Be Falling At Stricken Nuclear Plant
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersRadiation levels at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan are still high but may be tapering off, a senior U.S. nuclear official said Sunday. Indications from the plant, which houses six nuclear reactors, were levels in the range of...Tags: Japan, Metal and Mineral, Politics, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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Radiation Detected in Sacramento, Levels Not Harmful
A radiation monitor in California has detected a trace of radioactive material from the stricken nuclear power plant in Japan, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization said Friday, but an Environmental Protection Agency spokesman said it has found...Tags: Japan, Environmental Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Physical Conditions, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Prime Minister: 'Most Difficult Crisis' in Japan Since WWII
CNNSENDAI, Japan -- Rescuers began a fourth day picking through the rubble of earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged northern Japan on Monday as the country's prime minister called on his country to pull together and face sacrifices following Friday's historic...Tags: Naoto Kan, World War II (1939-1945), Armed Conflicts, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Emergency Planning
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Scientists try to defuse nuclear fallout fears
Fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear reactors already is being detected thousands of miles away. But scientists who track pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean say the amount of radioactivity should pose no danger to the United States.
Like other...Tags: Environmental Politics, Cancer, Mining, Environmental Issues, Potassium (dietary supplement)
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Commentary: This is no Chernobyl
Special to CNNThere has been a lot of speculation about what impact the problems facing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan will have on the future of the United States' nuclear industry. Some have compared the event to Chernobyl and declared the...Tags: Japan, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Politics, Nuclear Policy
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Radiation discovery fans food fears in Japan
TOKYO (AP) - At a bustling Tokyo supermarket March 20, wary shoppers avoided one particular bin of spinach. The produce came from Ibaraki prefecture in the northeast, where radiation was found in spinach grown up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the...Tags: Cancer, Medical Procedures and Tests, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Foods and Beverages, Aquaculture
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Power lines to Japanese reactor units are reconnected
The Associated PressWorkers at a leaking nuclear plant hooked up power lines to all six of the crippled complex’s reactor units Tuesday, but other repercussions from the massive earthquake and tsunami were still rippling across the nation as economic losses mounted...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Employees, National Government, Disasters
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