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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: Emergency Incidents, Weather Reports, Vehicles, Cancer, Natural Disasters
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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, Vehicles, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Natural Disasters
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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: Nuclear Power, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Demonstration, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Chernobyl Disaster (1986)
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Japan Nuclear Incident Raises Questions in Central PA
Multimedia JournalistImages of Japan's nuclear crisis are flooding TV screens in America, and for many in Central Pennsylvania those images are bringing up memories of what happened nearly 32 years ago at Three Mile Island. Since then, industry experts say safety is better,...Tags: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Tsunamis, Natural Disasters, Pennsylvania, Disasters
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Today in history: March 28
1854: During the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia. 1941: Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowned herself near her home in Lewes, East Sussex, England. 1964: Lars Herseth, a low hurdler, was among the lettermen returning...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lewes, Barack Obama, Middletown, England
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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: Obesity, Diets and Dieting, Fatigue, Stress, Health
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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: Emergency Incidents, News Agency, Nuclear Accidents, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Natural Disasters
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W&L professor weighs in on nuclear crisis in Japan
ReporterFrank Settle teaches nuclear power at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. He characterizes the crisis in Japan as a cross between Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Chernobyl was the complete meltdown of the Russian reactor in 1986. Settle told...Tags: Nuclear Power, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Washington (U.S. state), Plant Openings
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Sydney W. Porter Jr., radiation expert, dies
![Sydney Wynne "Syd" Porter Jr., a noted physicist and radiation expert who was called to Three Mile Island, Pa., in 1979 after an accident destroyed a reactor in what proved to be the nation's worst nuclear incident, died April 23 of lymphoma at a Haverford, Pa., nursing home.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/61388846-05102740.jpg "Sydney Wynne "Syd\" Porter Jr., a noted physicist and radiation expert who was called to Three Mile Island, Pa., in 1979 after an accident destroyed a reactor in what proved to be the nation's worst nuclear incident, died April 23 of lymphoma at a Haverford, Pa., nursing home.")
Sydney Wynne "Syd" Porter Jr., a noted physicist and radiation expert who was called to Three Mile Island, Pa., in 1979 after an accident destroyed a reactor in what proved to be the nation's worst nuclear incident, died April 23 of lymphoma at a...Tags: Science, Mount Washington, General Dynamics Corporation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Delaware
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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: Building Material, Emergency Incidents, Metal and Mineral, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Pennsylvania
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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: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Natural Disasters, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Middletown
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Plan devised to stabilize crippled Japanese nuclear plant
The operator of the stricken Japanese nuclear power plant said Sunday that it hoped to stabilize the facility's reactors by the beginning of next year in a state known as a cold shutdown.
The plan for the Fukushima Daiichi power plant is Tokyo Electric...Tags: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Clinton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Tsunamis, Natural Disasters, Tokyo (Japan)
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