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Link Removed Water leaks have been found at Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture in Japan after a new 7.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the northeastern area. Tohoku Electric, the operator of the plant, said on Friday that water leaked out of the spent fuel pools of reactors number 1and 2...

Sawdust. It's not the first thing most people would choose to put between themselves and highly contaminated radioactive water. But a mixture of sawdust — ogakuzu in Japanese — with chemicals and shredded newspaper is precisely what nuclear safety authorities and power plant officials turned to...

The Guardian reports that Japanese engineers have "lost the race" to prevent a nuclear meltdown. Apparently reactor number 2 has melted through its containment vessel, onto the concrete floor underneath. According to the expert quoted in the piece, the fuel will now run out like lava, "and that...

Japan has finally conceded it has lost the battle to contain radiation at four of its crippled reactors and they will be closed down. Details of what that will entail have yet to be revealed, but officials said it would mean switching off all power and abandoning attempts to keep the nuclear...

The buildup of highly radioactive water in the tunnels beneath the Fukushima complex is hindering efforts to restore power to the facility. Traces of plutonium, w Reporting from Tokyo and Los Angeles— Water with extremely high levels of radiation has been accumulating in a tunnel complex at...

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...

Japan was warned more than two years ago by the international nuclear watchdog that its nuclear power plants were not capable of withstanding powerful earthquakes, leaked diplomatic cables reveal. Japan earthquake: Japan warned over nuclear plants, WikiLeaks cables show - Telegraph

Hi I recently had a PSU failure and replaced with a new unit. System now powers up. However Windows is now randomly locking up. No BSOD, no warning, it just locks and stops responding. No screen corruption either. The only solution is to power off. It never once did this prior to the PSU...

Most people considering a hotel look at amenities such as swimming pools, spa services and gourmet restaurants -- not the power of the toilets. However, a clogged-up toilet is the sort of thing that people talk about on the, er, back end, according to Richard Senechal, the senior vice...

Hi! I have bought a new motherboard and have an older USB racket with connectors that does not match my new MB's description, can someone here tell me which to connect to which: Mainboard's name: 1 = Power (5V) 2 = Power (5V) 3 = USB DX- 4 = USB DY- 5 = USB DX+ 6 = USB DY+ 7 = GND 8 = GND...

my new computer build is been plagued with problems first hard drive now i dont know it loads up fine then after about 10 mins just cuts off ive watched the cpu temp and it stays at 40c which aint that hot the cut off make the screen flicker then boom no power any ideas?

Hello, I have bought the upgrade instalation disc for Windows 7 as I am currently running XP. When I was looking into Windows 7 I was advised that it is best run on an SSD, so I bought one of those too. I am currently using a laptop because I ordered a new PSU too for the new GPU I bought so...

I searched but mostly found bsod on wakeup nothing like this. never noticed this problem till recently because i never used to put my laptop to sleep, now i put it to sleep all the time. the thing is i can put it to sleep for a few hours then wake it up and everything is fine but if i let it...

Hi Why, and how can I prevent it, does the power to USB devices go off when the PC is in power save mode (ie goes to sleep ) - even though all the usb controllers are set to not allow the pc to turn off the usb, (box unchecked) and the usb selective suspend mode in advanced power settings is...

Just ahead of IDF, Intel made available an updated version of the SSD Toolbox, an application which enables people to manage their Intel solid state drives, keeping them in shape through various optimizing utilities. The new Toolbox, version 2.0, adds two new features, the System...

Ok, now my monitor is working great & i can now use Sleep option on my win7 64bit, ive discovered something very annoying. When i put my system to sleep for the night to save all my open windows & so forth so i know exactly where i was at when i went to sleep, when i woke up the system 1 of my...

AMD CPU+GPU Fusion by 2010 end Intel has been trying to do it since years, but they have failed in a an ugly fashion with poor graphics performance of Core i3, Core i5. Not just that, Intel has failed at even creating a decent dedicated Graphics processor. Now AMD, with years of strong...

Lately, I've been experiencing a BSOD with the message "DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE" whenever my computer tries to go into hibernation mode or attempts to shut down after a long period of use (When it shuts down, the "Shutting down" screen stays stuck for about 10 min, then the BSOD happens). I...