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'Chernobyl Diaries' mines nuclear disaster for horror thrills
24 FramesAudiences will get a history lesson of sorts from "Chernobyl Diaries," a movie due in theaters May 25 which follows a group of young American tourists in Europe on a jaunt to the abandoned Ukrainian site of the 1986 nuclear meltdown.... -
Report says tourism in Japan is rebounding slowly
Money & CompanyThe tourism industry in Japan -- devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March -- has slowly begun to rebound, with a full recovery expected by next year, according a report by the Worth Travel and Tourism Council.... -
Gas suggests new problem at stricken Japan nuclear plant
World NowJapanese nuclear fallout: officials detect ominous new gas at stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant damaged in March tsunami... -
Japan offers public bailout to help fix stricken nuclear reactor
World NowJapanese government bailout: Tokyo offers billions to utility that owns the nuclar power plant damaged in the March disaster.... -
Reporters tour stricken Japanese nuclear plant
World NowFor the first time since the March earthquake and tsunami, journalists were allowed this week to visit Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The scene at the Fukushima plant was post-apocalyptic.... -
Study finds parts of Japan no longer safe for farming
World NowA team of international researchers has found that levels of radioactive material in farmland in parts of northeastern Japan exceed safety standards. The study found that Fukushima prefecture was “highly contaminated” after the Fukushima... -
Japan may ban sales of tainted rice from stricken-reactor area
World NowJapan's central government warned Thursday that it might soon ban shipments of contaminated rice from a farm area affected by the March accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A test Wednesday detected excessive levels of the poisonous... -
Proposed initiative on nuclear plants would spur blackouts, state says
L.A. NOWA state ballot initiative proposed for next fall would force California’s two nuclear power plants to immediately shut down, causing rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, the state's... -
Damage at two Japan nuclear plants prompts evacuations
Los Angeles TimesJapanese officials struggled Saturday to avert the possibility of a meltdown at two major nuclear power plants whose emergency cooling systems were damaged by Friday's earthquake and tsunami. Emergency officials ordered the evacuation Saturday of all...Tags: Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Career and Workplace, Science and Technology, Plant Openings, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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Radioactivity surges again at Japan nuclear plant
Radiation levels increased sharply inside and outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Thursday, slowing work on the devastated facility again and once more throwing into doubt the integrity of the containment vessels that hold the fuel rods....Tags: Career and Workplace, Manufacturing and Engineering, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Disasters, Electricity Production and Distribution
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New progress, worries in Japan nuclear crisis
Japan took a step toward possibly getting its nuclear disaster under control Sunday as electricity to power some reactor cooling systems was restored and previous efforts to lower reactor temperatures with seawater at the battered Fukushima atomic...Tags: Nuclear Accidents, Science and Technology, Happiness (state of mind), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Health and Safety at School
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Japanese engineers work to contain nuclear reactor damage
Engineers are now pumping seawater laced with boron into two nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant 150 miles north of Tokyo and are considering doing it at a third reactor in a last-ditch effort to stave off a meltdown that...Tags: Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Science and Technology, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Emergency Incidents, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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