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Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Nature' on KOCE
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Commentary: Don't panic the people
Special to CNNIn the decorous chambers of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Wednesday a U.S. bureaucrat launched a tsunami of panic that has spread further worldwide than the real tsunami that devastated much of Japan on March 11. In testimony to Congress,...Tags: Anthrax, Human Body, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington (U.S. state)
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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: International Atomic Energy Agency, Tsunamis, Nuclear Power, Elections, Natural Disasters
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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: United Nations, Pacific Ocean, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, International Atomic Energy Agency, Washington (U.S. state)
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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: Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Nuclear Power, Cancer, Television
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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: University of Southern California, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington (U.S. state), Earthquakes, Plant Openings
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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: International Atomic Energy Agency, Washington (U.S. state), World War II (1939-1945), Earthquakes, Politics
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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: Pacific Ocean, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, International Atomic Energy Agency, Medical Procedures and Tests, Earthquakes
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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: Japan, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Applied Physics, California, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)
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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: Electricity Production and Distribution, Nuclear Power, Building Material, Career and Workplace, Emergency Incidents
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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: General Electric Company, International Atomic Energy Agency, Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Nuclear Power, Cancer
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Engineers Toil To Pump Out Japan Plant; Radiation
ReutersJapanese engineers struggled on Sunday to pump radioactive water from a crippled nuclear power station after radiation levels soared in seawater near the plant more than two weeks after it was battered by a huge earthquake and a tsunami. Tests on...Tags: Pacific Ocean, Fishing, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Earthquakes, Science and Technology
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