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Officials Consider Increasing Indian Point Evacuation Zone To 50 Miles To Include NYC
PIX11.comThe magnitude 9.0 earthquake of the coast of Japan and the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima Daichii nuclear power plant, have officials at America's 104 nuclear power plants taking a second at safety. The Indian Point power plant sits 25 miles north...Tags: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Manhattan (New York City), New Jersey, Politics, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Japan faces soaring number of feared dead
The number of missing and feared dead in Japan's epic earthquake soared Sunday as a reeling nation struggled to contain an unprecedented nuclear crisis, pluck people in tsunami-inundated areas to safety, quell raging blazes and provide aid to hundreds...Tags: Disneyland Park, U.S. Military, Cancer, Homes, Air Transportation Delays
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Japanese engineers work to contain nuclear reactor damage
Engineers are now pumping seawater laced with boron into two nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant 150 miles north of Tokyo and are considering doing it at a third reactor in a last-ditch effort to stave off a meltdown that...Tags: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Explosions, Tokyo (Japan), Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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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: University of California, Electricity Production and Distribution, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Pacific Ocean, Nuclear Policy
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Problems surface at another nuclear reactor at Fukushima plant
As a small crew of engineers and workers struggle through the night at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant to keep the reactor core at the No. 2 reactor cooled so that more radiation does not escape through what appears to be a small breach in the reactor...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Explosions, Career and Workplace, Employees, Natural Resources
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Japan labors to cool reactors: Workers, power source added
Authorities battling the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant have doubled the number of workers on the site to 100 in an effort to continue cooling the three reactors and the spent fuel pools but have abandoned — at least...Tags: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Career and Workplace, Human Interest, United Nations, International Economic Institution
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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), Tokyo Electric Power Co., Nuclear Policy, Politics, Tsunamis
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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: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), United Nations, Russia, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alaska
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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: Career and Workplace, Physical Conditions, Tokyo (Japan), Cancer, Weather
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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: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Career and Workplace, Employees, U.S. Military, Tokyo (Japan)
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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: Electricity Production and Distribution, Tokyo (Japan), Plant Openings, Companies and Corporations, Nuclear Policy
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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: France, Air France-KLM, China Earthquake (2010), Air Transportation Delays, Nuclear Accidents
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