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Another Japan nuclear reactor fails
Another nuclear reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 facility in Japan has lost its emergency cooling capacity, according to the Associated Press, bringing to three the number of reactors at that facility to fall prey to Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake and...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Politics, International Atomic Energy Agency, Disasters and Accidents, Japan
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Small amounts of radiation headed for California, but no health risk seen
Small amounts of radioactive isotopes from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant are being blown toward North America high in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean and will reach California as soon as Friday, according to experts.
A network of...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Alaska, Japan
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Japanese weigh the nuclear risk of staying put
To stay or go. To trust government reassurances or heed more alarmist warnings on the Internet of radioactive clouds wafting over Tokyo. These are among the potentially life-altering questions being pondered by millions of Japanese in range of the...Tags: Politics, Tokyo (Japan), Weather Reports, Karachi (Pakistan), Physical Conditions
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U.S. officials express strong concerns about Japan nuclear crisis
-- As the crisis continues to unfold at the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) nuclear power plant, a growing disparity between Japanese and U.S. attitudes toward the problem is becoming apparent. Whereas Japanese authorities have generally been restrained in...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Politics, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, CNN (tv network), U.S. Embassy
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Japan quake: 2nd reactor cooled with seawater to avert meltdown
Japanese officials have begun pumping seawater into a second nuclear reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant 140 miles north of Tokyo to cool the reactor core in a last-ditch effort to stave off a core meltdown.
The action indicates that the reactor's...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Politics, International Atomic Energy Agency, Plant Openings, Electricity Production and Distribution
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Radiation spikes add to nuclear peril in Japan
A series of grim developments hit a shaken Japan on Wednesday, including reports that high-level radiation may have leaked from a second damaged nuclear reactor and emergency workers being forced to temporarily abandon the crippled complex.
The...Tags: China, Germany, Disasters and Accidents, Oysters, Japan
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Japan fears a nuclear disaster after reactor breach
Dangerous levels of radiation escaped a quake-stricken nuclear power plant after one reactor's steel containment structure was apparently breached by an explosion, and another reactor building in the same complex caught fire, Japan's leaders told a...Tags: Politics, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Air and Space Accidents, National Government, Plant Openings
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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: Tokyo (Japan), Explosions, Metal and Mineral, Electricity Production and Distribution, Japan
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Video: Nuclear plant explosion in Japan
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan explodes a day after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.Tags: Japan, Nuclear Power, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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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: Politics, Explosions, Tokyo (Japan), International Atomic Energy Agency, Cancer
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Japanese fearful as nuclear crisis builds
They're scared. And they're skeptical.
The government in Tokyo may be reassuring a nation already reeling from the worst earthquake in its recorded history that Japan is not about to experience a full-blown nuclear disaster.
But the closer you got to...Tags: Politics, Tokyo (Japan), Defense Equipment, National Government, Plant Openings
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