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Japan Gathers for Tearful Memorial, 1 Year After Devastating Quake
CNNTOKYO, Japan -- Japan gathered Sunday amid tears, prayers and a moment of silence to mark one year since an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands, and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. Throngs nationwide observed a moment...Tags: Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Rebecca Hall, Science and Technology
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Could small nukes be the energy answer?
Scrambling to shrink their carbon footprints, federal agencies in Hampton Roads and beyond are eyeing a proven yet controversial source of energy: nuclear power. But they’re not pursuing large-scale power plants that tend to evoke the accidents at...Tags: Nuclear Power, General Electric Company, Applied Physics, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Permits OK'd for 3rd reactor at North Anna
NEWPORT NEWS — Weeks after a rare earthquake forced the shutdown of North Anna nuclear power plant, state regulators approved a permit enabling a proposed third reactor to inch forward.
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission on Tuesday voted...Tags: Nuclear Power, Dominion Resources Incorporated, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Natural Disasters, Disasters
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Dominion simulates nuclear disaster at Surry
Ken Jones stood before a pair of television cameras discussing an accident at Surry nuclear power plant.
Harmful radiation had been released, he said, but southerly winds prevented its spread into Newport News — there was no need to evacuate the...Tags: Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Emergency Incidents
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Japan Widens Investigation Into Nuclear-Contaminated Beef
CNNTOKYO -- Japan announced Tuesday that all beef detected with radiation higher than government safety standards will be destroyed as the probe into beef contaminated from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant expands. This week governments in three...Tags: Nuclear Power, Standards, Disasters and Accidents, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan
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Lethal Radiation Levels Detected at Damaged Japan Nuclear Plant
CNNTOKYO, Japan -- The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it has detected record radiation levels at the facility. Lethal levels of radiation were measured Monday at the bottom of a ventilation tower on the grounds between...Tags: Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Emergency Incidents, Science and Technology
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Radioactive tritium leaked at Surry Power Station
Radioactive tritium used in everything from wristwatches to hydrogen bombs has leaked into groundwater at Virginia’s two commercial nuclear power plants during the past four years.
While not known to have reached public water supplies, the leaks...Tags: Nuclear Power, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Louisa County, Regional Authority, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Commentary: Don't panic the people
Special to CNNIn the decorous chambers of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Wednesday a U.S. bureaucrat launched a tsunami of panic that has spread further worldwide than the real tsunami that devastated much of Japan on March 11. In testimony to Congress,...Tags: Bird Flu, Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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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: Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Disasters
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Physicist: Japan Reactor Is a "Chernobyl in the Making"
FOX40 NewsA theoretical physicist today calls the Japan reactor explosion a "Chernobyl in the making." Speaking to ABC News, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku said, "This could be a Chernobyl in the making. We are now going into uncharted territory, we are...Tags: Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Applied Physics, Science and Technology
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Three Mile Island: Demonstrators Mark 32nd Anniversary of TMI Accident
Multimedia JournalistMore than two dozen demonstrators held a candlelight vigil in front of Three Mile Island's main gate early Monday morning, marking 32 years since a partial meltdown in one of the power plant's two reactors. The anti-nuclear demonstrators started the...Tags: Nuclear Power, Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Disasters and Accidents, Middletown, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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