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No 'business as usual' on nuclear after Fukushima: IAEAVienna (AFP) April 4, 2011 The world cannot take a "business as usual" approach to nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan, UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said Monday. Amano suggested however that not enough was learned from an earlier incident in Japan where another nuclear power plant was damaged in an earthquake smaller than the one that caused last month's disaster. "Thinking retrospectively, the measures taken by the operators as a safety measure (were) not sufficient to prevent this accident," Aman ... read more |
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  Japan dumps low-level radioactive water into sea Japan on Monday started to dump more than 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water into the Pacific as part of emergency operations to stabilise its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. ... more | .. |
 Nuclear Power Investment Must Not Be Delayed A low carbon nuclear future: Economic assessment of nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuel management in the UK explores possible future scenarios to accelerate the delivery of a safe, holistic an ... more | .. |
 US nuke reprocessing would benefit French firm: study US anti-nuclear groups Monday condemned a project to built a plant where plutonium from weapons would be reprocessed for use as fuel in nuclear power plants, saying the plan was costly, dangerous and would benefit mainly French group, Areva. ... more | .. |
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Nuclear industry has 'safe' record: GE boss The head of General Electric, the US manufacturer of reactors at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, on Monday said the nuclear industry has had a "safe track record". ... more | .. |
Japan crisis fuels India nuclear safety concerns Japan's nuclear crisis has fuelled public unease in India over ambitious government plans to ramp up nuclear power capacity to feed the country's growing, energy-hungry economy. ... more | .. |
  Japan uses colour dye to trace nuclear leak Emergency crew at Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant used a colour dye Monday to trace the source of a radioactive leak as lower business confidence signalled the disaster's economic impact. ... more | .. |
 US studies Fukushima disaster for safety lessons US engineers studying Japan's experience with its crippled nuclear plant have focused on two key weaknesses - backup energy systems and spent fuel rod pools - that could also plague reactors in the United States. ... more |
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 Japan PM tells nuclear workers 'you can't lose this battle' Japan's premier on Saturday visited emergency crew who have struggled to stabilise a tsunami-hit nuclear plant that has leaked radiation into the air, ground and ocean. ... more | .. |
Australia will stay with uranium exports Australia says it intends to remain a major exporter of uranium for nuclear power plants despite the nuclear emergency at Japan's Fukushima reactors. ... more | .. |
Japan, Germany to cooperate on nuclear safety Japan and Germany on Saturday said they would work together on international nuclear safety standards, while Tokyo promised to thoroughly investigate its ongoing nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima 'much bigger than Chernobyl': expert Japan's unfolding nuclear disaster is "much bigger than Chernobyl" and could rewrite the international scale used to measure the severity of atomic accidents, a Russian expert said here Friday. ... more |
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 Top Indian scientist calls for nuclear moratorium A top Indian scientist and government advisor has called for a moratorium on all future nuclear projects following the nuclear crisis in tsunami-hit Japan. ... more | .. |
 Japan may inject tax money into TEPCO: reports Japan may inject tax money into troubled Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) to ensure the company stays afloat while grappling with the nation's worst ever nuclear disaster, local media said Friday. ... more | .. |
 German energy giant sues government German energy giant RWE filed Friday a legal challenge to the government's order to shut down temporarily the country's seven oldest nuclear reactors in light of the Fukushima crisis in Japan. ... more | .. |
 TEPCO lacked radiation meters after tsunami: agency Japan's nuclear safety agency on Friday said it warned TEPCO for not having enough radiation meters for all workers battling to stabilise its Fukushima nuclear plant after devices were lost in a tsunami. ... more |
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 Japan says no need to evacuate village near nuclear plant Japan's nuclear safety agency said Thursday there is no need to evacuate a village 40 km (25 miles) from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after the UN nuclear watchdog voiced concern. ... 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 | .. |
 Japan nuclear plant's disaster plan inadequate: report Disaster plans at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant appear woefully inadequate, including only one satellite phone and a single stretcher in case of an accident, a report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Japan nuclear refugees feel 'betrayed' Refugees who fled Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear reactors say they have been betrayed by the company that runs them, accusing embattled operator TEPCO of creating a "man-made disaster". ... more |
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 Radiation in sea off Japan nuclear plant 4,385 times limit The level of radioactive iodine in the sea off Japan's disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant has soared to its highest reading yet at 4,385 times the legal limit, the plant operator said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Japan PM says stricken nuclear plant to be scrapped 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. ... more | .. |
$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 |
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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 | .. |
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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 |
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