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Nuclear meltdown in Japan
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Nuclear accidents and incidents
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The 8.9 magnitude quake has left thousands of people dead and triggered a tsunami that devastated parts of Japan. The reactors shut down due to the earthquake account for 18 percent of Japan's nuclear power-generating capacity, according to the World Nuclear Association. Many of Japan’s 55 nuclear power plants are located in earthquake-prone zones such as Fukushima and Fukui on the coast. The IAEA estimates that around a fifth of nuclear reactors around the world are currently operating in areas of significant seismic activity.
NTV Japan
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08.04.2013
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Fukushima irradiated water storage tank springs gaping leak
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) said Monday that 47 tons more water may escape a storage pool at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant through a leak that was preceded by the announcement of a 120 ton leak over the weekend.
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Tepco
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08.04.2013
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Rat hunt leads to another power blackout to Fukushima cooling pond
Workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant who were installing wire nets Friday to keep rats away from a vital cooling system instead tripped that system, causing it to fail for the second time in less than a month, various news agencies reported.
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Tepco
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21.03.2013
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Rat may have caused Monday’s power shut-down at Japan’s embattled Fukushima Daiichi plant
A spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), the company that runs the beleaguered Fukushima plant, which was devastated in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, said a rat may have caused the power outage to the plant’s cooling ponds earlier this week
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Tepco
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19.03.2013
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Fukushima power outage to spent nuclear fuel storage ponds partially restored
Four fuel storage ponds at Japan's tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were deprived of fresh cooling water for more than 20 hours due to a power outage, the plant's operator said today, raising concerns about the fragility of a facility that still runs on makeshift equipment.
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Nils Bøhmer/Bellona
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14.03.2013
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New Japanese nuclear regulatory agency must assert its opinion as confusion around Fukushima disaster still lingers
TOKYO – By its own understated account, the nuclear regulatory body that was reconstituted in Japan is suffering from a public relations crisis, given its goals of openness and honesty that are meant to supplant the crony system of the past nuclear regulator, whose close ties to industry led to oversights that made the Fukushima Daiichi disaster possible, according to a Japanese officials.
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Charles Digges/Bellona
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13.03.2013
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Analysis: Fukushima two years later
TOKYO– For the past few days, I have been traveling with my colleague Charles Digges in the area surrounding the Fukushimi Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan – the site of one of the world’s largest nuclear accidents, which occurred on March 11, 2011. My impressions of this trip have been manifold, and I will try to summarize some of the most prescient ones.
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