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Options are few to prevent Japan nuclear catastrophe
Workers struggling to contain radioactive releases from the Fukushima power plant face two critical tasks to avoid turning a nuclear disaster into a catastrophe: preventing a runaway chain reaction into the nuclear fuel and maintaining a massive flow of...Tags: Employees, Health and Safety at School, Electricity Production and Distribution, Disasters, Missing Persons
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Three Mile Island: Demonstrators Mark 32nd Anniversary of TMI Accident
Multimedia JournalistMore than two dozen demonstrators held a candlelight vigil in front of Three Mile Island's main gate early Monday morning, marking 32 years since a partial meltdown in one of the power plant's two reactors. The anti-nuclear demonstrators started the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Pennsylvania, Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Demonstration
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What will happen?
The worst-case scenario is being redefined. Engineers and emergency responders are attempting to avert massive radiation releases from reactors in Japan that were crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami. Already the threat of partial meltdowns of...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Natural Disasters, Plant Openings, Politics, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Official: Disaster risk very low from spent Big Rock fuel
While much of the world watches as officials in Japan try to get a handle on the crisis at a nuclear power plant brought on by a recent earthquake and tsunami, experts in this country have said there is no reason to fear radiation from the disaster area...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Entergy Corporation
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Americans need to sleep more
I grew up in a culture that devalued sleep. It was common to hear my parents say, “Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.” Sleep in our culture is treated as a manifestation of laziness. Many of us have internalized contempt for sleep and those who...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Science and Technology, Weight, University of Pennsylvania, Brain
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Radiation lessons from the Japan nuclear crisis
As workers struggle to shut down the nuclear reactors in Japan, Michigan is closely watching the failure at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex.
While grave, the accident in Japan is two orders of magnitude lower than the 1986 Chernobyl incident, said Dr....Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disasters, Career and Workplace
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Japan's Nuclear Disaster Escalates
ReutersFUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Japan's prime minister said on Tuesday that radioactive levels had become high around an earthquake-stricken nuclear power plant after an explosion there, and there was a risk of radiation leaking into the atmosphere. Naoto Kan...Tags: New York, News Agency, Electricity Production and Distribution, Disasters, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)
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2nd Explosion At Nuclear Power Plant In Japan. Could Radiation Reach Pacific Northwest?
Earthquake, tsunami and not one but two explosions at the Fukushima Daiishi nuclear power plant.
The latest happened about 8pm PST, Sunday night.
Company officials say seven people are missing and three people were injured.
The good news is, so...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Nuclear Accidents, Plant Openings, Emergency Incidents, Disasters
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Worried about radiation danger?
UCLA professor Keisuke Iwamoto answered reader questions about the dangers of radiation exposure in a live Web chat Thursday.
Iwamoto, a faculty member at UCLA's Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, studies radiation exposure and how it can...Tags: Medical Research, Disasters, Career and Workplace, Uterus, Cancer
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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: Disasters and Accidents, Science and Technology, The New York Times, Politics, Emergency Incidents
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