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New DWP manager announces that No. 2 executive will step down immediately
L.A. NOWThe No. 2 executive at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is stepping down, according to a memo issued Friday by the utilityâs new general manager. DWP General Manager Ron Nichols said that Raman Raj, hired in 2007,...... -
Cleaning up Japan's radioactive water could take decades
For nearly four weeks, Japanese emergency crews have been spraying water on the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, a desperate attempt to avert the calamity of a full meltdown. Now, that improvised solution to one nuclear nightmare is spawning...Tags: Technology, Nuclear Power, Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Co., University of California, Berkeley
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Japan's nuclear workers try to trace leak, dump radioactive water
Workers used a milky bathwater dye Monday as they frantically tried to trace the path of radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant.
The crack in a maintenance pit discovered over the weekend was the latest...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Disasters and Accidents, Natural Disasters, Disasters, Emergency Incidents
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Japan's prime minister visits earthquake, tsunami zone
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJapanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Saturday visited tsunami survivors and workers trying to bring the Fukushima nuclear facility under control as the plant's operator said highly radioactive water was leaking from a pit near a reactor into the ocean....Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Health, Disasters and Accidents, Natural Disasters, Japan
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Japan nuclear plant operator reports some success on leak
The operator of Japan's stricken nuclear plant said Wednesday that it had apparently contained at least one leak that was allowing radiation to seep into the sea.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. had said Tuesday that it had found iodine-131 at 7.5 million times...Tags: Stock Market, Nuclear Power, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Disasters and Accidents, Natural Disasters
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Japan raises nuclear crisis rating to highest level
Japanese nuclear regulatory officials Tuesday raised the severity rating at the earthquake- and tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level by international standards, equaling the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in the former Soviet Union....Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Disasters and Accidents, Natural Disasters, Disasters, Fires
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Plan devised to stabilize crippled Japanese nuclear plant
The operator of the stricken Japanese nuclear power plant said Sunday that it hoped to stabilize the facility's reactors by the beginning of next year in a state known as a cold shutdown.
The plan for the Fukushima Daiichi power plant is Tokyo Electric...Tags: Nuclear Power, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Disasters and Accidents, Clinton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Natural Disasters
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Bah, hum! Noisy transformer behind Cerritos man's house is finally replaced
It may have taken 18 months, but the state Public Utilities Commission has finally pulled the plug on a humming backyard electric transformer that a Cerritos man says kept him awake at night.
The Southern California Edison Co. has replaced the noisy...Tags: Physiology, Music, Science, John Davis, Entertainment
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L.A. gets $60-million stimulus grant for 'smart grid' electric power system
L.A. NOWThe federal government today awarded Los Angeles a $60-million grant to help modernize the cityâs electrical power system. The money will be used for âsmart grid" demonstration projects at USC and UCLA. The projects will allow the cityâs... -
'Correction' camp on Wall Street at 17-year high
Money & CompanyRemember that 10% stock market âcorrectionâ that much of Wall Street was anticipating a few months ago â but it never came? Hope springs eternal: The percentage of investment newsletters expecting a 10%-or-so decline, or correction, in the short... -
L.A. council lets electricity rate hike stand
L.A. NOWA divided Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to let a planned 4.8% hike in electricity rates go into effect on July 1, despite complaints from some members that they did not understand the proposal when it was approved two...... -
Poll: DWP rate increases and renewable energy
Opinion L.A.The Times' editorial board on Monday gave its thumbs-down to the L.A. Department of Water and Power's and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's proposal to increase electricity rates by between 8% and 28% over the next year. The problem the editorial board had...
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