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Radiation Levels May Be Falling At Stricken Nuclear Plant
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersRadiation levels at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan are still high but may be tapering off, a senior U.S. nuclear official said Sunday. Indications from the plant, which houses six nuclear reactors, were levels in the range of...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Nuclear Power, Tokyo Electric Power Co., International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Policy
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Options are few to prevent Japan nuclear catastrophe
Workers struggling to contain radioactive releases from the Fukushima power plant face two critical tasks to avoid turning a nuclear disaster into a catastrophe: preventing a runaway chain reaction into the nuclear fuel and maintaining a massive flow of...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Fires, Science and Technology
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Ask Tom why: Does the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere at the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan pose a danger to the United States?
Dear Readers, Many of you — too many to list — have written to this column expressing concern about the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere at the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Does this pose a danger to the...Tags: Alaska, Nuclear Power, Hawaii, Japan
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Prime Minister: 'Most Difficult Crisis' in Japan Since WWII
CNNSENDAI, Japan -- Rescuers began a fourth day picking through the rubble of earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged northern Japan on Monday as the country's prime minister called on his country to pull together and face sacrifices following Friday's historic...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Natural Disasters, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), European Union
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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: Radiation Therapy, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Health, Tumors, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)
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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: Metal and Mineral, Nuclear Power, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Science and Technology, Career and Workplace
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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: Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Nuclear Power, Tokyo Electric Power Co., International Atomic Energy Agency, 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: Disasters and Accidents, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Nuclear Power, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Manufacturing and Engineering
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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: Tsunamis, Disasters and Accidents, Ronald Reagan, Nuclear Power, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011)
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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: Naoto Kan, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Nuclear Power, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Career and Workplace
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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: U.S. Military, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Natural Disasters, Physical Conditions
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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: Ronald Reagan, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Oysters, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), China
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