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Japan issues emergency at another nuclear plant
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has declared a state of emergency at another nuclear power plant after a cooling system at its three reactor units failed following a massive earthquake. There has been no radiation leak. Japan's nuclear safety agency is also...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Emergency Planning, Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents
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Commentary: This is no Chernobyl
Special to CNNThere has been a lot of speculation about what impact the problems facing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan will have on the future of the United States' nuclear industry. Some have compared the event to Chernobyl and declared the...Tags: Alaska, Nuclear Policy, Disasters, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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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: Nuclear Policy, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Tokyo Electric Power Co., Missing in Action, Pacific Ocean
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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: Disasters, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Four reactors at Fukushima nuclear complex will have to be scrapped, utility chairman says
The chairman of the utility that runs the crippled Fukushima power plant on Wednesday said the facility's four tsunami-battered reactors would have to be scrapped, and he apologized to the Japanese public for the nuclear disaster. Tsunehisa Katsumata,...Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, Physical Conditions, Health, Disasters, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Radioactive water spilling into tunnels beneath Japanese nuclear plant; plutonium found in soil
Highly radioactive water is building up in tunnels underneath at least three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, impairing the ability of workers to reestablish power connections at the facility. Officials of the Tokyo Electric Power...Tags: Nuclear Policy, Health, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Science and Technology, Politics
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Disaster in Japan exposes supply chain flaw
About 40 miles west of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, another kind of crisis may be unfolding — this one striking at the heart of the world's multibillion-dollar market for smartphones, portable music players and other cutting-edge...Tags: Sony Corp., Toyota, Disasters and Accidents, Toyota Motor Corp., Education
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'Jack the Giant Slayer' is slayed. Will 'Oz' be great and powerful?
May 5, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times< Previous 1-10 11 12 13 14 Next >'Jack the Giant Slayer' is slayed. Will 'Oz' be great and powerful?
May 14, 2011 |Story| KTLA-LTVFirst worker dies at Japanese nuclear plant
CNNFUKUSHIMA, Japan -- A worker died after collapsing at a facility in the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, its owner said Saturday. The man in his 60s was rushed to hospital unconscious after working for 50 minutes, according to...Tags: Health, Disasters, Hospitals and Clinics, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Employees
May 14, 2011 |Story| KTLA-LTVWorker Dies at Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant
ReutersFUKUSHIMA, Japan -- A worker at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Saturday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said, bringing the death toll at the complex to three since a massive earthquake and tsunami in March....Tags: Health, Disasters, Hospitals and Clinics, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Employees
May 15, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles TimesLiterary journalism finds new platforms
Los Angeles Times Book CriticWhen National Book Award-winning novelist William T. Vollmann went to Japan this spring to report on the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from inside the contamination zone, he did what any journalist would do. He bought a dosimeter to chart the...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, Apple iPad, Media Industry, Democratic Convention (1968), Columbia University
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Engineers check facilities at the central control room...
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