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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: Explosions, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Nuclear Policy, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), International Atomic Energy Agency
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Japan's crisis may have already derailed 'nuclear renaissance'
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.
Before the recent events in Japan, the...Tags: Energy Resources, Don Lee, Physical Conditions, Defense Equipment, Tsunamis
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Japan still struggling to restore power to cool down reactors
Fighting exhaustion and radiation fears, engineers struggled anew Saturday to complete the crucial task of hooking a crippled nuclear plant to the electricity grid to help cool down damaged reactors. The official count of dead and missing in the quake and...Tags: Naoto Kan, Coca-Cola Co., Career and Workplace, Tsunamis, Japan
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A look at Japan's damaged nuclear plants
The situation at one of Japan's crippled nuclear power plants seemed to go from bad to worse as an explosion Saturday destroyed a building that houses one reactor and on Sunday another reactor began experiencing problems with its cooling system. An...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), University of California, Career and Workplace, Tsunamis
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Physicist: Japan Reactor Is a "Chernobyl in the Making"
FOX40 NewsA theoretical physicist today calls the Japan reactor explosion a "Chernobyl in the making." Speaking to ABC News, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku said, "This could be a Chernobyl in the making. We are now going into uncharted territory, we are...Tags: Science and Technology, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), California, Applied Physics, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Radioactive tritium leaked at Surry Power Station
Radioactive tritium used in everything from wristwatches to hydrogen bombs has leaked into groundwater at Virginia’s two commercial nuclear power plants during the past four years.
While not known to have reached public water supplies, the leaks...Tags: Surry (Surry, Virginia), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Environmental Cleanup, Plant Openings, Barack Obama
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Lack of data from Japan distresses nuclear experts
How did Japanese workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant jury-rig fire hoses to cool damaged reactors? Is contaminated water from waste pools overflowing into the Pacific Ocean? Exactly who is the national incident commander?
The answers to these...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), University of Cambridge, Education, Japan
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Anger and abandonment in a Japanese nuclear ghost town
Hoshi Jyunichu lives in a nuclear ghost town.
On a recent afternoon, he calmly swept the entrance to his downtown coffeehouse, even though only one solitary soul had crossed the threshold the entire day. His customers, his neighbors, even his family,...Tags: Entertainment, Vehicles, Television, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan
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Nuclear power debate: How much of our fear is rooted in propaganda?
Opinion L.A.If you caught the April 1 episode of "This American Life," a fear of nuclear power may have been cemented. In one segment, actors read harrowing passages from "Voices from Chernobyl," a collection of interviews that documents how people were...... -
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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: Explosions, Science and Technology, Building Material, Career and Workplace, Metal and Mineral
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Japan raises nuclear crisis rating to highest level
Japanese nuclear regulatory officials Tuesday raised the severity rating at the earthquake- and tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level by international standards, equaling the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in the former Soviet Union....Tags: Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Middletown, Career and Workplace, Tsunamis, Japan
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