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Japan PM says stricken nuclear plant to be scrappedSendai, Japan (AFP) March 31, 2011 Japan said Thursday its crisis-hit nuclear plant must be scrapped, but currently had no plans to evacuate more people, despite calls for a larger exclusion zone around the crippled facility. Grappling with the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami, its biggest post-war disaster, Japan's government hosted French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who called for clear international standards on nuclear safety. Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, in talks with the Japanese Communist Party leader ... read more |
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  $850 million void in Chernobyl sarcophagus project: official The project to build a new sarcophagus over the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor lacks some 600 million euros of the 1.5 billion needed, a Ukrainian official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 France mulls halting nuclear plant: officials French authorities are considering delaying the building of a new-generation EPR reactor, the pride of France's nuclear power industry, after Japan's quake-induced fallout alert, they said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Independent nuclear watchdog for India? In the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has proposed an independent nuclear regulator for his country. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  Fukushima a threat to Pacific people? Radioactivity unleashed by the Japanese Fukushima reactor into the Pacific Ocean endangers the livelihoods of millions of people, a German aid group warned. ... more | .. |
 RWE to challenge German nuclear shutdown order German energy group RWE said Thursday it would file a legal challenge to Berlin's decision to shut down one of its nuclear reactors for three months, a move its rival EON has renounced. ... more | .. |
 Japan, France call for G20 nuclear regulators meeting Japan and France pledged Thursday to push for improved international nuclear safety standards as Tokyo struggled to contain an atomic plant disaster caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami. ... more | .. |
 France's Areva to expand Japan nuclear help French nuclear group Areva said Thursday it plans to step up its technical assistance to the operator of a Japanese atomic plant crippled by the massive quake and tsunami earlier this month. ... more |
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Austria's mothballed nuclear plant pulls in the public Thousands of miles away from the catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan, a mothballed nuclear power station in Austria is attracting a steady stream of visitors. ... more | .. |
Letter bomb blast at Swiss nuclear industry group: police A letter bomb exploded at the offices of the Swiss nuclear energy association Thursday, injuring two people, police said. ... more | .. |
 Pressure on Japan to widen nuclear evacuation zone Japan said Thursday there were no immediate plans to widen the exclusion zone around its stricken nuclear plant, hours after the UN atomic watchdog agency voiced its concern over the issue. ... more | .. |
 Cancer Risk Of Backscatter Airport Scanners Is Low Calculations by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley estimate that the cancer risk associated with one type of airport security scann ... more |
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 UN atomic watchdog raises alarm over Japan evacuations The UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday radiation in a village outside the evacuation zone around a stricken Japanese nuclear plant was above safe levels, urging that Japan reassess the situation. ... more | .. |
 Japan's atomic plant neighbours mull leaving homes The nightmare of Japan's unfolding nuclear emergency is sending fear through the community that lives in the shadow of another coastal reactor. ... more | .. |
French atomic security unready for repeat disasters: agency French nuclear security has not yet taken into account the kind of accumulation of natural catastrophes that led to Japan's atomic disaster, the head of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 IAEA worried about radiation in Japan village Radiation levels recorded at a village outside the evacuation zone around the quake-striken Fukushima nuclear plant are above safe levels, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Anti-radiation resin to coat Japan plant grounds Workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant plan to spray its grounds with a special resin to prevent further radioactivity being released, a nuclear safety agency official said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Hong Kong activists to monitor China nuclear plant A group of Hong Kong lawmakers, academics and environmentalists said Wednesday they will monitor an atomic plant in mainland China following the ongoing nuclear crisis in a quake-hit Japan. ... more | .. |
Hundreds protest Russia-backed nuclear project in Bulgaria Hundreds of people joined an anti-nuclear protest in Sofia on Wednesday, calling for the government to drop plans for a new Russia-backed nuclear plant after the radiation disaster in Japan. ... more | .. |
Japan mulls draping fabric over reactors: report Japan is considering draping crippled reactor buildings at the Fukushima nuclear plant with a fabric to reduce radiation, and using a tanker to siphon off contaminated water, a report said Wednesday. ... more |
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TEPCO president hospitalised, shares tumble Shares in Tokyo Electric Power tumbled again on Wednesday as the company at the centre of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986 said its under-fire president had been hospitalised. ... more | .. |
  In Germany, Green wave troubles Merkel German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives lost power in the key state of Baden Wuerttemberg for the first time since the 1950s, a defeat that could spell trouble for her center-right national government. ... more | .. |
 Japan on 'maximum alert' over nuclear plant Japan said Tuesday it was on "maximum alert" over a crippled nuclear plant where radioactive water has halted repair work and plutonium has been found in the soil. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima: Sea contamination likely to be local - scientists Radioactive contamination of the sea from Fukushima is likely to be only a local problem, but could lead to an exclusion zone if there is a major release of long-term pollutants, scientists say. ... more |
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 TEPCO nationalisation an option, says govt: report Japan on Tuesday said nationalising the beleaguered operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was "an option" but denied it had immediate plans to do so. ... more | .. |
Germans fight over nuclear power In Germany, the fight over nuclear power is in full swing. ... more | .. |
Sarkozy to decide on fate of Areva chief within days President Nicolas Sarkozy will decide within days about the leadership of French nuclear group Areva, a government source said Tuesday, amid mounting speculation that Anne Lauvergeon will keep the top job. ... more | .. |
 Nuclear fears spark rush for radiation detectors A scare over irradiated food from Japan has sparked a global rush to buy radiation detectors, US dealers said Tuesday, with most reporting they have no more stock to sell. ... more |
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Romania to carry on with nuclear programme Romania must pursue its nuclear programme in order to limit electricity imports, Nuclearelectrica chief Pompiliu Budulan said Tuesday, adding that the Cernavoda plant was "among the safest" worldwide. ... more | .. |
 Calm urged as radiation spreads across Asia Small amounts of radiation from Japan's leaking nuclear power plant have spread across Asia, authorities said Tuesday, deepening concerns for millions of people already wary of eating Japanese food. ... more | .. |
Finns' support for nuclear slips due to Japan crisis: poll Nearly half of people in Finland, where a new generation nuclear reactor is being built, say the crisis in Japan has shaken their trust in nuclear power, a poll released Tuesday showed. ... more | .. |
 Light Technology Reduces Painful Side Effects Of Radiation and Chemotherapy A NASA technology originally developed for plant growth experiments on space shuttle missions has successfully reduced the painful side effects resulting from chemotherapy and radiation treatment in ... more |
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