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Another Japan nuclear reactor fails
Another nuclear reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 facility in Japan has lost its emergency cooling capacity, according to the Associated Press, bringing to three the number of reactors at that facility to fall prey to Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake and...Tags: Politics, Nuclear Power, Tsunamis, Japan, International Atomic Energy Agency
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Small amounts of radiation headed for California, but no health risk seen
Small amounts of radioactive isotopes from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant are being blown toward North America high in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean and will reach California as soon as Friday, according to experts.
A network of...Tags: Nuclear Power, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Travel, Japan
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Japanese weigh the nuclear risk of staying put
To stay or go. To trust government reassurances or heed more alarmist warnings on the Internet of radioactive clouds wafting over Tokyo. These are among the potentially life-altering questions being pondered by millions of Japanese in range of the...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Government, Politics, Nuclear Power, Cancer
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U.S. officials express strong concerns about Japan nuclear crisis
-- As the crisis continues to unfold at the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) nuclear power plant, a growing disparity between Japanese and U.S. attitudes toward the problem is becoming apparent. Whereas Japanese authorities have generally been restrained in...Tags: Politics, Nuclear Power, U.S. Military, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Employees
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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, Companies and Corporations, Nuclear Power, Plant Openings, Japan
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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: Politics, Plant Openings, Cancer, Tsunamis, Chernobyl Disaster (1986)
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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: Health and Safety at Work, Tsunamis, Emergency Incidents, Japan, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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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: Health and Safety at Work, Politics, U.S. Navy, Plant Openings, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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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: Nuclear Power, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Emergency Incidents, Employees, Science and Technology
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Japan Q&A: What caused the blast at nuclear plant, and what are officials doing to avert a meltdown?
An explosion overnight destroyed the building housing one of the nuclear reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 facility about 160 miles north of Tokyo, where authorities have been struggling to bring the reactor under control following...Tags: Politics, Nuclear Power, Cancer, Emergency Incidents, Chernobyl Disaster (1986)
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Anxiety runs deep, but Tokyo tries to put on a brave face
In a city where everything works, suddenly not quite everything does.
It's little things, mainly. Automatic teller machines that stopped dispensing cash. Bare shelves in the corner store. Speedy express trains to the suburbs supplanted by slowly chugging...Tags: Anxiety, Japan, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Tokyo (Japan), Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011)
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Japanese fearful as nuclear crisis builds
They're scared. And they're skeptical.
The government in Tokyo may be reassuring a nation already reeling from the worst earthquake in its recorded history that Japan is not about to experience a full-blown nuclear disaster.
But the closer you got to...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Government, Politics, Nuclear Power, Plant Openings
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