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Japan offers public bailout to help fix stricken nuclear reactor
World NowJapanese government bailout: Tokyo offers billions to utility that owns the nuclar power plant damaged in the March disaster.... -
Reporters tour stricken Japanese nuclear plant
World NowFor the first time since the March earthquake and tsunami, journalists were allowed this week to visit Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The scene at the Fukushima plant was post-apocalyptic.... -
Study finds parts of Japan no longer safe for farming
World NowA team of international researchers has found that levels of radioactive material in farmland in parts of northeastern Japan exceed safety standards. The study found that Fukushima prefecture was “highly contaminated” after the Fukushima... -
Japan may ban sales of tainted rice from stricken-reactor area
World NowJapan's central government warned Thursday that it might soon ban shipments of contaminated rice from a farm area affected by the March accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A test Wednesday detected excessive levels of the poisonous... -
Damage at two Japan nuclear plants prompts evacuations
Los Angeles TimesJapanese officials struggled Saturday to avert the possibility of a meltdown at two major nuclear power plants whose emergency cooling systems were damaged by Friday's earthquake and tsunami. Emergency officials ordered the evacuation Saturday of all...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania, Edison International, Electricity Production and Distribution
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Radioactivity surges again at Japan nuclear plant
Radiation levels increased sharply inside and outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Thursday, slowing work on the devastated facility again and once more throwing into doubt the integrity of the containment vessels that hold the fuel rods....Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Defense Equipment, Employees, U.S. Department of Energy, Electricity Production and Distribution
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More nuclear power planned for Florida
Sun SentinelCustomers of Florida's two largest power companies will have paid $772 million by the end of 2011 to produce more nuclear power - before any concrete has been poured. The money has been plowed into planning the expansions. Florida Power & Light has...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Employees, Natural Gas, Economy, Business and Finance, Electricity Production and Distribution
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What will Florida nuclear power plants learn from Japan?
As federal regulators continue to look for lessons from Japan's nuclear disaster, critics are pleading for changes in three key nuclear emergency areas.
It matters to Floridians because the state has five reactors, four of which are slated to expand,...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, South Miami, Electricity Production and Distribution, Earthquakes, Government
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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: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Elections, Barack Obama, Human Body, Earthquakes
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Japan disaster may be the worst in history
SCTCOn March 11, a terrible disaster occurred in Japan. An earthquake struck off of Japan’s coast, resulting in a devastating tsunami. Coming in at a 9.0 on the Richter Scale, this was the most powerful earthquake ever to strike Japan. As of March 24,...Tags: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Disasters, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Japan
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Michigan finds low-level radiation in air sample
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Officials in Michigan say analysis of an air sample has detected very low levels of radiation that's believed to be from a damaged nuclear power complex in Japan. The state announced Wednesday that the "very low...Tags: Nuclear Power, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Michigan
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Low levels of radiation found in West Coast milk
WASHINGTON (AP) — Low levels of radiation have turned up in milk samples from two West Coast states. Traces of radioactive Iodine-131 were found in milk in California and Washington, according to federal and state authorities who are...Tags: Alabama, Idaho, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Health, Environmental Politics
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