Los Angeles TimesMembers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force spray water onto the wharf of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Workers pumped concrete into a leaking pit holding power cables near reactor No. 2 Saturday in an attempt to stop a leak of ...
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Los Angeles Times
NRC orders seismic safety review of all 104 reactors in US
Greenville News
Sandra Magee, spokeswoman for Duke, said all of its plants are built to withstand the ground motion of an earthquake similar to the Charleston quake. None of the state's nuclear plants use the boiling water reactors found in Japan. ...
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Crack leaking radioactive water
Akron Beacon Journal (blog)
The plant's reactors overheated to dangerous levels after electrical pumps — deprived of electricity — failed to circulate water to keep the reactors cool. A series of almost daily problems has led to substantial amount of radiation leaking into the ...
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Engineers fail to seal leak at Japan nuke plant
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Radiation leaking into seawater from Japan's tsunami-damaged reactor complex reached its highest level yet Wednesday and the president of the plant's utility company was hospitalized, as setbacks accumulated in Japan's nuclear crisis. ...
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Already, some lessons from the Japanese quake
Jamaica Observer
It was clear from early on that the reactor minders understood that their only option was what one foreign scientist calls "plant suicide" - doing whatever is needed to cool the reactors, contain the radiation and not try to preserve them for future ...
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Jamaica Observer
Our Lady's message the same from Fatima to Akita
Inquirer.net
As of this writing, the valiant battle to contain radiation leakage in the plant has been abandoned. The effort has been switched to decommissioning the six reactors which will take 30 years at an estimated cost of one trillion yen ($12 billion). ...
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2 tsunami victims found at Japan nuclear plant
Inquirer.net
TEPCO said in a statement: "We extremely regret losing the two young employees who tried to secure the safety of the plant while it was being hit by the quake and tsunami." The crippled plant is continuing to release radiation into the air, ...
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Live summary of Japan nuclear facilities so far
International Business Times
3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeasternJapan in this handout photo *The explosive sound and white smoke was confirmed near Unit 1 when the big quake occurred at 3:36pm, March 12th. *We started injection of sea water at ...
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International Business Times
Japanese evacuees: Help us, too, not just leaking nuclear plant
Detroit Free Press
Toru Sato, 57, lost both his wife and his house in the tsunami and said he was bothered that Kan's visit to the quake zone was so brief -- about a half day. "He's just showing up for an appearance," Sato said. "He should spend time to talk to various ...
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S.Korea detects radioactive silver
Sin Chew Jit Poh
... so small that there was no immediate risk to health or the environment, KINS said. South Korea has stepped up monitoring of radiation levels following the crisis atJapan's Fukushima nuclear plant which was crippled by the March 11 quake and tsunami.
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Japan's prime minister visits earthquake, tsunami zone
Tepco said the water was coming directly from the reactor and the radiation level was 1000 millisieverts an hour. The annual limit of radiation exposure ...
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China, India to Add Nuclear Reactors Amid Quake Disaster ...
“There are differences between the Japanese and Chinese reactors,” Cui said. “Japan'sFukushima plant was using old technology while Chinese reactors are ...
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Latest Japan Quake Not a Problem for Nukes, But Fukushima “Very ...
By KENNETH RAPOZA Monday morning's 6.5 earthquake on the east coast of Honshu island Japan did not affect any of the nuclear power plants in the area, ...
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Radiation from earthquake-damaged Japan nuclear reactor may be ...
By SHINO YUASA Associated Press TOKYO -- Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear plant raced to pump out contaminated water suspected of sending radioactivity ...
www.silive.com/news/.../radiation_from_earthquake_dama.ht...
BBC News - Radiation leak found outside Japan nuclear reactor
... one of the reactor buildings at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, ... On Sunday Tepco said radiation levels at reactor No 2 were 10 million ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12881015
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