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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: Russia, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Science and Technology, Engineering, Plant Openings
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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: American Red Cross, Wages and Pensions, Disasters, Corporate Officers, Nuclear Policy
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Japanese nuclear plant continues to leak radioactive water into ocean
Radioactive water continued to seep into the sea Monday after a failed attempt to seal the leak at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant using an absorbent polymer, sawdust and shredded paper. Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials think the leak has...Tags: U.S. Military, American Red Cross, Metal and Mineral, Science and Technology, Disasters
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Two workers' bodies recovered at Fukushima nuclear plant
In the first confirmation of fatalities at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, the plant's operator on Sunday announced the recovery of the bodies of two workers who had gone missing after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Tokyo Electric...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Health Treatments
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Japan prime minister plans rebuilding council
After declaring he would convene a national council on rebuilding within 10 days, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited the devastated city of Rikuzentakata on Saturday as well as the site serving as the emergency staging headquarters for the...Tags: Weather Reports, Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Nuclear Policy, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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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: Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Health Treatments, Physical Therapy
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Red Cross aid hasn't reached Japan quake victims
Los Angeles TimesJapan's Red Cross has collected more than $1 billion in the first three weeks after the massive earthquake and tsunami but has yet to distribute any funds directly to victims, prompting Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano to urge Sunday that the process...Tags: American Red Cross, Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Classical Music (genre), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Shuttered Tokyo hotel reopens for evacuees
Room 1648 at the upscale Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka isn't fancy, but it sure beats Mina Ariga's old digs: an evacuation shelter in the Tokyo convention center. And for the three months she'll stay, she won't have to pay a cent.
She and her husband,...Tags: Human Interest, Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Government
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Japan hit with magnitude 7.1 aftershock
A magnitude 7.1 aftershock struck northeastern Japan late Thursday night, prompting a brief tsunami warning for areas already ravaged by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami, according to the nation's meteorological agency.
The Japanese Meteorological...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Tsunamis, Japan, Nuclear Power
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Engineers try to lower danger level at crippled Japanese nuclear plant
Engineers began injecting nitrogen into one of the reactors at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Wednesday evening as radiation levels in seawater near the plant dropped and a new report from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Metal and Mineral, Disasters and Accidents, Science and Technology
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