Fox News
With Obama also bowing to the reality that his proposed program of global warming fees to be paid by businesses was dead in the new, divided Congress, many believed that the moment was ripe for an energy compromise. Sen. Lindsey Graham, RS. ...
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Week Ahead: Japan And the Global Economy
WNYC
Just how successful Japan is at preventing a possible meltdown at the reactors will spell the difference between a short-term, immensely tragic event and a long-term, global disaster. If there is no major fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors, ...
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Amid catastrophe, Japan fights mayhem with order
Washington Post
In the 72 hours since an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and a resulting tsunami killed thousands, relief workers and a global television audience are marveling at Japan's stoicism, its ability to fight once-in-a-century mayhem with order. ...
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Supplies Run Short for Quake Survivors
Wall Street Journal
Thousands are feared dead. Rescue workers scrambled to get food and water to Japan's ravaged northern communities Monday as the impact of Friday's quake continued to ripple throughout the nation, shaking its financial markets and bringing big chunks of ...
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Japan Struggles With Post-Quake Crises
NPR
And while estimates of the dead and missing continue to climb, the government is trying to avert another catastrophe at some of its nuclear reactors. Earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan compared the situation to the aftermath of Hiroshima and ...
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Auto Industry Shuts Down in Post-Quake Japan
Inside Line
Aftershocks were still being felt across Japan on Monday, and authorities were concerned about potential radiation leaks from several nuclear reactors damaged by the quake. Toyota, which builds nearly half of its global production in Japan and is ...
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Japan's Tragedy: Global Ecological Uncertainty
Forbes Digital Download (blog)
By MICHAEL TOBIAS Sendai, one of the largest cities in northeastern Japan has seen 260000 people evacuated in the past three days. Thousands of people and scores of companion animals remain missing or injured, while an as yet unknown number are dead. ...
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Japan earthquake: Insurance cost for quake alone pegged at $35 billion, AIR says
Los Angeles Times
Fires burn in the neighborhood as civil servants are finally able to enter the area to look for the dead. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) By Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Japan's magnitude 9.0 earthquake could lead to ...
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Los Angeles Times
ASIA FX: US Dollar Ends Off Session High, Yen Remains Weak
IMarketnews.com
Japanese stocks slumped on Monday by margins not seen since the worst of the global financial crisis, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 index ending down 6.18% at 9620.49. Reports of another explosion at the Fukushima No. 3 nuclear reactor during the ...
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Gold up, commodities down as Tokyo shares plunge on banking & economic fears
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
The price of gold leapt at the start of Asian trade on Monday, gaining 1% as engineers in Japan fought a third potential meltdown at nuclear reactors hit by last week's catastrophic tsunami. With at least 10000 people thought dead, the Nikkei stock ...
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THE DISTILLERY: Tokyo terror
Business Spectator
The Financial Times also reported that: "The explosion and release of radiation at Japan's Fukushima atomic power plant has cast a shadow over proposals for new nuclear reactors around the world. In Germany, protesters came out in force on Saturday to ...
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Red Cross ready to assist Japan
Pacific Daily News
"The pictures coming out of Japan today are just devastating," wrote American Red Cross Vice President of International Services David Meltzer in a message to Red Cross supporters. "This epic 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the nation's shores set off a ...
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Fairfax Market Report including African Eagle and Ormonde Mining
Proactive Investors UK
Immediate focus remains on the problems facing the nuclear industry in the country as concerns mount over the partial meltdown at two reactors north of Tokyo. • The broader picture remains unclear. Demand for industrial metals in Japan may tumble as ...
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Japan begins to dig for dead amid nuclear crisis
MiamiHerald.com
Donations can also be mailed to: Global Giving, Japan relief, 1023 1st St. NW, 12th floor, Washington, DC. 20005 • International Medical Corps: The corps is sending a team to Japan to help with medical needs. ...
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Japan `Big One' May Raise Quake Risk for Years, Help End Mystery of Plates
Bloomberg
Tokyo Electric Power Co. engineers today tried to stabilize three damaged nuclear reactors, as a second explosion disrupted efforts to cool fuel rods and prevent a meltdown. The last big quake before March 11 -- the 9.1 magnitude that hit Aceh in ...
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Can Japan find 'New Deal' after triple whammy?
Sify
Survivors huddled under blankets in Rikusentakata. Others stood in front of posters with a list of the dead and missing, some weeping. Many of them were middle aged or elderly, reflecting Japan's rapidly ageing population. Kazuaki Sakai, 70, said he ...
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Death toll skyrockets, nuclear fears mount
Charlotte Observer
Global Giving: The agency is helping other groups with emergency relief. To donate, go to www.globalgiving.org or text JAPAN50555 to make a $10 donation. Donations can also be mailed to: Global Giving, Japan relief, 1023 1st St. NW, 12th floor, ...
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Japan earthquake tsunamiThis Just In - CNN.com Blogs
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[3:25 a.m. ET Monday, 4:25 p.m. Monday in Tokyo] Another nuclear reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan has lost its cooling capabilities, Kyodo News reported Monday. The problem was detected in the ... [2:35 a.m. ET Monday, 3:35 p.m. Monday in Tokyo] Japan's central bank announced plans Monday to inject a record 15 trillion yen ($183 billion) into the economy to reassure global investors in the stability of Japanese financial markets and banks. ...
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Meanwhile, a third reactor at a nuclear power plant lost its cooling capacity and the fuel rods at another were at least briefly fully exposed, raising fears of a meltdown. The stock market plunged over the likelihood of huge losses by Japanese ... In Japan, most people opt to cremate their dead, a process that, like burial, requires permission first from local authorities. But the government took the rare step Monday of waiving that requirement to speed up funerals, ...
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Japan Faces Lingering Nuclear Horror As Power Supplies Dwindle
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Workers were desperately trying to cool the fuel rods inside the two nuclear reactors as fear of explosion looms large at the No. 3 reactor of the Daiichi Plant in Northeastern Japan. Officials pointed out that hydrogen gas is . ... News 24. Japan struggled on Monday to avert a nuclear disaster and care for millions of people without power or water, three days after an earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 10 000 people. The world's third-largest economy opens for ...
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Within hours of another reactor containment building exploding, due to a build- up of hydrogen gas, the Kyodo news service reports that the fuel rods are exposed at Reactor No. ... As if this is not bad enough, a second tsunami measuring 10 feet in height hit the Japan today, caused by an underwater avalanche. Some 2000 dead bodies were washed ashore in Miyagi province. Rescue teams have yet to be fully deployed in Sendai as citizens face shortages of fuel , food and water. ...
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Tokyo Mar 13 Facing an unprecedented nuclear crisis Japan Sunday struggled hard to avert multiple meltdowns at two of its reactors damaged by the devastating earthquake and tsunami as it braced for a fresh explosion at Fukushima plant amid ... “We have no choice but to deal with the situation on the premise that it (the death toll) will undoubtedly be numbered in the ten thousands,” Naoto Takeuchi, head of the Miyagi prefectural police was quoted as saying by Kyodo news. ...
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Japan Quake: Japan Grapples with Potential Nuclear Crisis - CNBC
Japan scrambled to avert a meltdown at a stricken nuclear reactor on Monday after a second hydrogen explosion rocked the facility, just days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 10000 people. ... It's keeping the radiation in and it's holding everything in, which is the good news, " said Murray Jennex, of San Diego State University. "This is nothing like a Chernobyl ... At Chernobyl (in Ukraine in 1986) you had no containment structure — when it ...
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10K Dead In Japan Amid Fears Of Nuclear Meltdowns | News One
By NewsOne Staff
The estimated death toll from Japan's disasters climbed past 10000 Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns and hundreds of thousands of people struggled to find food and water.
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Japan Struggles to Cope With Worst Crisis Since World War II | The ...
By Editor
By Sunday Japanese officials said there was a degree of danger in two nuclear plants and they were watching a third that potentially posed the same risks. By late Sunday an explosion rocked a second nuclear reactor. ... And in the United States the fragile bipartisan consensus that nuclear power offers a big piece of the answer to America's energy and global warming challenges may have evaporated as quickly as confidence in Japan's crippled nuclear reactors. ...
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10K dead in Japan amid fears of nuclear meltdowns - Action 3 News ...
SENDAI, Japan (AP) - The estimated death toll from Japan's disasters climbed past 10000 Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns and hundreds of thousands of people struggled to find food ...
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Some quotes & news bytes on the nuclear energy Tsunami | Watts Up ...
By Anthony Watts
Via the GWPF – After Tsunami Disaster, Expect Nuclear Delays & Global Run On Cheap Fossil Fuels. Forget wind. Forget solar. Forget green energy. Japan's nuclear disaster will only intensify the global race for cheap fossil fuels while ... The nuclear crisis in Japan, even if authorities are able to bring damaged reactors under control, has cast doubts on the future of nuclear power as a clean-energy solution in the United States and around the globe, - Los Angeles Times, ...
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Can Japan find “new deal” after triple whammy? | Free Malaysia Today
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We are also worried that corporate and household sentiment will worsen,” the BOJ said in a statement after its board voted to double the 5 trillion fund pool put in place last October to support Japan's recovery after the global economic crisis. ... “Once the news returns to normal, criticism will emerge again.” The Tepco Syndrome. Kan has his hands full dealing with the nuclear emergency. A hydrogen explosion on Monday at the number 3 reactor raised concern the crisis is ...
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Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown as 10000 people feared dead
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Japan Sends 50000 Rescuers to Quake Area; Death Toll Rises - Bloomberg
The U.S. Agency for International Development said today it is sending urban search- ... 1 reactor at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station destroyed the walls of the reactor .... More News ». Advertisement ... Japan Futures Signal Drop as Quake's Impact on Global Markets Seen Limited Updated 30 minutes ago ...
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Japan braces for N-reactor meltdown after tsunami - Blogrunner
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Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown as 10000 people feared dead
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Hydrogen blast from Japan's 3rd nuclear reactor | OFW News On Web
Mar Roxas arrives in Taiwan · Couple dead after collision with bus · Hydrogen blast ... Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the blast occurred at unit 3 of ... A meltdown at the 3rd nuclear reactor could be more serious than that of the other ... Posted in Global News | View Comments. Previous Topic ...
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Japan scrambles to avert meltdown at quake-stricken nuclear plant
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Radiation leaks from Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant; over 1700 ...
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Japan attempts to cool nuclear reactor | News.com.au
However, Stratfor, a company that provides global intelligence, ... Japan's nuclear safety agency rated the earthquake-hit nuclear plant at four on an International Nuclear Event Scale of zero to seven, AFP reported. ... there were 687 dead, with a further 200 to 300 unidentified bodies. ... Today's news highlights ...
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Japan fears nuclear disaster
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