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Japan's fishing industry a major casualty of nuclear crisis
Standing on the deck of his 91-foot trawler, veteran fisherman Tomoyuki Kondou winces over reports that radioactivity from Japan's damaged nuclear power plant in nearby Fukushima has contaminated the local food supply after this month's deadly...Tags: International Atomic Energy Agency, Tsunamis, Disasters and Accidents, Natural Disasters, Lifestyle and Leisure
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How safe is nuclear power?
Elmer E. Lewis, professor emeritus at Northwestern University and author of two textbooks on nuclear power, took questions about the effort to contain reactors damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Lewis' research has focused on the broad...Tags: Building Material, Tsunamis, Disasters and Accidents, Plant Openings, Nature
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Radiation spikes add to nuclear peril in Japan
A series of grim developments hit a shaken Japan on Wednesday, including reports that high-level radiation may have leaked from a second damaged nuclear reactor and emergency workers being forced to temporarily abandon the crippled complex.
The...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Tsunamis, China Earthquake (2010), Natural Disasters, Television
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The Japan quake and nuclear power; the ICE's Secure Communities program; the Palestinians new strategy
Japan's nightmare Re "Japan crisis may derail 'nuclear renaissance,' " March 14 If anything good can be said to have come from the terrible disaster in Japan, it is the realization that nuclear power plants can, at any time, be subjected to unexpected...Tags: Civil Unrest, Immigration, Israel, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Disasters and Accidents
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Japan fears a nuclear disaster after reactor breach
Dangerous levels of radiation escaped a quake-stricken nuclear power plant after one reactor's steel containment structure was apparently breached by an explosion, and another reactor building in the same complex caught fire, Japan's leaders told a...Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Air and Space Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, U.S. Navy, Plant Openings
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Isolated and angry amid Fukushima nuclear crisis
An awful realization is setting in for those trapped in the vicinity of the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex: People are afraid to help them.
Residents describe spooky scenes of municipal cars driving down near-empty streets telling people to stay...Tags: Social Issues, Tsunamis, Disasters and Accidents, Westport, Natural Disasters
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California has failed to identify thousands of buildings vulnerable to quakes
California has failed to identify and retrofit thousands of brittle concrete buildings despite years of warnings from scientists that the structures are highly vulnerable to collapse during a major earthquake.
Officials have known as far back as the 1971...Tags: Engineering, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System, Building Material, Disasters and Accidents
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For one quake survivor, self-help in the face of seeming helplessness
Most of the dozens of tsunami-battered towns along Japan's northeastern coast remain mired in mud, but the situation in Ishinomaki is a bit different. Nearly a week after the massive earthquake and tsunami hit the city of 162,000, large portions remain...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Armed Forces, Career and Workplace, Statue of Liberty, Floods
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Japan's crisis may have already derailed 'nuclear renaissance'
The nuclear crisis in Japan, even if authorities are able to bring damaged reactors under control, has cast doubts on the future of nuclear power as a clean-energy solution in the United States and around the globe.
Before the recent events in Japan, the...Tags: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Physical Conditions, Natural Resources, Disasters and Accidents, Tsunamis
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Japan still struggling to restore power to cool down reactors
Fighting exhaustion and radiation fears, engineers struggled anew Saturday to complete the crucial task of hooking a crippled nuclear plant to the electricity grid to help cool down damaged reactors. The official count of dead and missing in the quake and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Tsunamis, International Atomic Energy Agency, Disasters and Accidents, Food and Drug Administration
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Japan's nuclear crisis widens
A fresh explosion rocked a crippled nuclear complex as rescuers from around the world converged on Japan's devastated earthquake zone, searching for survivors and ministering to the sick and hungry. With the death toll expected to ultimately reach the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, International Atomic Energy Agency, Tsunamis, Plant Openings, China Earthquake (2010)
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Electric power partially restored at Japan nuclear plant
Working overnight into Sunday, engineers have successfully restored power to cooling pumps in two reactors at the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the first genuinely hopeful sign in the week-long battle to prevent a full-scale meltdown...Tags: Career and Workplace, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Tokyo Electric Power Co., Science and Technology, Tokyo (Japan)
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