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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: Human Interest, Japan, Career and Workplace, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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A look at Japan's damaged nuclear plants
The situation at one of Japan's crippled nuclear power plants seemed to go from bad to worse as an explosion Saturday destroyed a building that houses one reactor and on Sunday another reactor began experiencing problems with its cooling system. An...Tags: Politics, Japan, Physical Disabilities, Disasters and Accidents, Nuclear Policy
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Japan quake: 2nd reactor cooled with seawater to avert meltdown
Japanese officials have begun pumping seawater into a second nuclear reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant 140 miles north of Tokyo to cool the reactor core in a last-ditch effort to stave off a core meltdown.
The action indicates that the reactor's...Tags: Politics, Japan, Companies and Corporations, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Nuclear Power
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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: Defense, Human Interest, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Japan
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Risk of meltdown increases at Japan nuclear reactor
The fuel rods at a third nuclear reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have been fully exposed to air for short periods of time and at least partially exposed for more than three hours, allowing them to heat up and sharply raising the risk of...Tags: Human Interest, Japan, Career and Workplace, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Nuclear Power
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Japan nuclear crisis worsens as damage feared to reactor containment vessel
An explosion Tuesday at the Unit 2 reactor at a Fukushima power plant may have damaged the reactor's inner containment vessel, the most serious development yet in the ongoing crisis at the severely damaged facility. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which owns...Tags: Japan, Career and Workplace, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Nuclear Power
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Japan uses helicopters, water cannons in desperate bid to cool reactor fuel
Japanese authorities made desperate new attempts to avert full-scale meltdowns at a quake-battered nuclear plant Thursday, dispatching helicopters to drop tons of water on the reactors and using water cannons to cool a spent-fuel pool that an American...Tags: Human Interest, Politics, U.S. Military, Japan, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011)
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Tokyo sees steady exodus amid nuclear crisis
Marco Gutierrez was taking no chances. With radiation still leaking this weekend from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant 150 miles away, the Tokyo resident joined the legions of foreigners — and a growing number of Japanese — fleeing the...Tags: Politics, Japan, Osaka (Japan), China Earthquake (2010), Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011)
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Options are few to prevent Japan nuclear catastrophe
Workers struggling to contain radioactive releases from the Fukushima power plant face two critical tasks to avoid turning a nuclear disaster into a catastrophe: preventing a runaway chain reaction into the nuclear fuel and maintaining a massive flow of...Tags: Fires, Japan, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Health and Safety at School, Missing Persons
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Four reactors at Fukushima nuclear complex will have to be scrapped, utility chairman says
The chairman of the utility that runs the crippled Fukushima power plant on Wednesday said the facility's four tsunami-battered reactors would have to be scrapped, and he apologized to the Japanese public for the nuclear disaster. Tsunehisa Katsumata,...Tags: Politics, Japan, Tsunamis, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Physical Conditions
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Smart Fortwo Electric Drive: Half the car for nearly twice the price
In the hullaballoo surrounding last year's debuts of the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf, one new electric vehicle was mostly overlooked: The Smart Fortwo Electric Drive.
It was an understandable oversight — and not just because of the cars'...Tags: Transportation, Prices, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Hybrid Vehicles, Road Transportation
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