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    VIDEO Fukushima may render Japan Uninhabitable 6/9/11

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    Japan nuclear plant moves radioactive water

    TOKYO The Japanese utility battling to bring its radiation-spewing nuclear reactor under control said Sunday that 1,500 more tons of radioactive water are being moved into temporary storage -- the latest attempt to prevent a massive spill of contaminated water into the environment. More...
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    Japan nuclear crisis:Kamikaze Pensioners seek work at Fukushima

    A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners is volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station. The "Skilled Veterans Corps", as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of sixty. One of the group, Yasuteru...
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    VIDEO Will TEPCO survive Fukushima crisis?

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    Tokyo, May 20: Japanese workers have entered reactor No.3

    Tokyo, May 20: Japanese workers have entered reactor No.3 of the damaged Fukushima power plant for the first time since twin disasters hit the station more than two months ago. On March 11, a massive earthquake and an ensuing tsunami in Japan's northeastern coast set off a nuclear crisis by...
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    Agony for Japan livestock farmers in nuclear crisis

    Agony for Japan livestock farmers in nuclear crisis By Shingo Ito (AFP) – 2 hours ago FUKUSHIMA CITY, Japan — As more people are forced to leave their homes around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, anger is growing in a farming community forced to make the agonising decision whether to...
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    Bad news on Fukushima . Complete meltdown !

    TODAY'S MOST VIEWED TEPCO: Unit No. 1 is now “in a state of meltdown” — Suspects there are holes in bottom of reactor (VIDEO) (929) NILU ends public forecasts as map shows large radiation clouds now over US, Canada (VIDEOS) (524) “It’s Official: Fukushima Was Hit With a Full-Blown Nuclear...
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    Tepco: Fukushima Fuel Rods Are Fully Exposed

    Tokyo Electric Power Co. said fuel rods are fully exposed in the No. 1 reactor at its stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, setting back the utility’s plan to resolve the crisis. The water level is 1 meter (3.3 feet) below the base of the fuel assembly, Junichi Matsumoto, a general...
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    Dangerous radiation level at Fukushima No.1 reactor detected

    The recent 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami in Japan triggered a number of explosions at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which caused the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986. The radiation levels in the building exceed expected levels reaching as high as 700 millisieverts per...
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    VIDEO Nuclear Nightmare: Japan in Crisis - Everything on the Line

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    Fukushima could exceed Chernobyl

    Discharges from the plant may be even higher than admitted. JAPAN HAS raised its assessment of the Fukushima plant accident to the same level as history’s worst nuclear crisis, admitting that “large volumes” of radioactive substances are being released in the surrounding area. The decision...
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    WRAPUP 2-Japan set to extend nuclear evacuation zone-media

    High radiation to force extention of evacuation zone-media * Voter anger at nuclear crisis hits PM Kan's party * No end in sight to month-long nuclear crisis (Updates with evacuation zone latest, elections, quotes) By Chisa Fujioka and Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japan plans...
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    Factbox: Japan's disaster in figures

    The following lists the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 and the subsequent crisis at a nuclear power plant. ( DEATH TOLL A total of 12,009 people were confirmed dead by Japan's National Police Agency as of 9 p.m. EDT Saturday, while...
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    Fukushima: the future is unknown, but the present is terrible enough

    Link RemovedEvacuees rest at a shelter after being transferred from an elder care facility in Kesennuma, northern Japan. Photograph: Masami Kawakita/AP Of all the grim headlines to have emerged from Japan in recent weeks, this one on the Kyodo newswire was particularly disturbing: "Up to 1,000...
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    [JAPAN] Gigantic concrete pumps will be airlifted from US to Japan

    wo gigantic concrete pumps — described as the largest such equipment in the world — will soon be on their way to join the machinery being used to pour water on damaged reactors in Japan’s nuclear crisis, company officials said Thursday. Link Removed The two machines are normally used to...
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    Prime Minister: Japan On 'Maximum Alert' Over Nuclear Crisis

    Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan says his government remains in a "state of maximum alert" over the crisis at the earthquake- and tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant. Speaking to a parliament committee, Kan said today that the situation at the plant "continues to be unpredictable" and that the...
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    Japanese nuclear crisis on par with 3 Mile Island

    Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's nuclear safety agency on Friday worsened its assessment of problems at the Fukushima nuclear power plant as soldiers and utility workers continued a frantic effort to hose down overheating nuclear fuel with water cannons. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised...
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    Japan earthquake: Anger over Fukushima evacuation plan

    They are leaving us to die," says the mayor of Minamasoma inside the exclusion zone. The governor of the region at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis has criticised official handling of the evacuation of the area around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Fukushima prefecture...
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    Crisis Continues at Crippled Japanese Nuclear Power Plants

    Link RemovedThis handout picture shows the damaged third (L) and fourth reactors of the TEPCO Fukushima No.1 power plant in Fukushima, north of Tokyo, March 16, 2011 Japan's government acknowledged Wednesday it might need the help of U.S. military forces to halt continuing radioactive emissions...
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    Japanese nuclear plant hit by fire and third explosion

    Link Removed The explosion on Tuesday at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Photograph: Abc Tv/EPA Japan is facing one of the world's biggest nuclear crises as a team of engineers struggles to regain control of the Fukushima plant following another explosion and a fire that caused radiation to rise...
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