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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: Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Nuclear Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, Air Transportation Delays, France
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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: Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Disasters and Accidents, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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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: Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Science and Technology, Explosions, Nuclear Power, Emergency Incidents
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Video: Nuclear plant explosion in Japan
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan explodes a day after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Nuclear Power, Japan
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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: Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Explosions, Nuclear Power, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Politics
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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: Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Disasters and Accidents, Nuclear Power, Politics, Career and Workplace
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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: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Anxiety, Tokyo (Japan), Los Angeles Times
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Japan nuclear crisis worsens as damage feared to reactor containment vessel
An explosion Tuesday at the Unit 2 reactor at a Fukushima power plant may have damaged the reactor's inner containment vessel, the most serious development yet in the ongoing crisis at the severely damaged facility. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which owns...Tags: Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Explosions, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Power, Emergency Incidents
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Japan uses helicopters, water cannons in desperate bid to cool reactor fuel
Japanese authorities made desperate new attempts to avert full-scale meltdowns at a quake-battered nuclear plant Thursday, dispatching helicopters to drop tons of water on the reactors and using water cannons to cool a spent-fuel pool that an American...Tags: Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), U.S. Military, Disasters and Accidents, White House, Earthquakes
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Emergencies Declared at 2 Nuclear Power Plants in Japan
Staff WriterJapan declared states of emergency for five nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling ability in the aftermath of Friday's powerful earthquake. Thousands of residents were evacuated as workers struggled to get the reactors under...Tags: Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Disasters and Accidents, Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Emergency Planning
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