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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: Family, Career and Workplace, Nuclear Power, Science and Technology, Government
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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: Career and Workplace, Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Regulatory Policy and Organizations
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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: Nuclear Power, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Electricity Production and Distribution, Companies and Corporations, Politics
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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Air Transportation Delays, Health and Safety at Work, Disasters, Natural Disasters
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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: Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Electricity Production and Distribution, Human Interest
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Radiation exposure and the effects on human health
As engineers have fought to avert a meltdown at the earthquake- and tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant, nuclear authorities have reported that spikes of radiation have escaped from the facility at levels that can be dangerous to...Tags: Career and Workplace, Hair Loss, Human Body, Emergency Incidents, Diarrhea
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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: Career and Workplace, Nuclear Power, Emergency Incidents, Science and Technology, 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: Nuclear Power, Emergency Incidents, General Electric Company, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011)
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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: Career and Workplace, Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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2nd explosion rocks Japan nuclear plant; rods at another reactor fully exposed
Associated PressThe second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked a Japanese nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive cloud of smoke into the air and injuring 11 workers. The blast was felt 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, but the plant's operator said the radiation levels...Tags: Career and Workplace, Nuclear Power, Emergency Incidents, Disasters and Accidents, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)
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Japan nuclear crisis worsens as damage feared to reactor containment vessel
An explosion Tuesday at the Unit 2 reactor at a Fukushima power plant may have damaged the reactor's inner containment vessel, the most serious development yet in the ongoing crisis at the severely damaged facility. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which owns...Tags: Career and Workplace, Nuclear Power, Emergency Incidents, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Japan uses helicopters, water cannons in desperate bid to cool reactor fuel
Japanese authorities made desperate new attempts to avert full-scale meltdowns at a quake-battered nuclear plant Thursday, dispatching helicopters to drop tons of water on the reactors and using water cannons to cool a spent-fuel pool that an American...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Military, Human Interest, Electricity Production and Distribution, Washington (U.S. state)
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