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WHO eyes 20 year nuclear health watch in JapanGeneva (AFP) April 13, 2011 The World Health Organisation is seeking studies for up to 20 years to keep watch over public health in Japan following the Fukushima nuclear emergency, a senior official said on Wednesday. WHO environmental health chief Maria Neira played down a current risk to public health outside the 30-kilometre exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi plant, based on tests and monitoring by Japanese authorities. "There is no need for new public health measures," Neira told journalists. She nonethele ... read more |
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  HSBC to advise Bulgaria on Belene nuclear plant British-based global banking giant HSBC is to advise Bulgaria on the economic feasibility of its planned Belene nuclear power plant project, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Jordan urged to drop nuke plans after Japan crisis Following the nuclear disaster in Japan, experts in Jordan want their energy-poor country to drop its ambitious plans to generate atomic power, despite reassurances by the kingdom's nuclear regulator. ... more | .. |
OSCE urges members to carry out nuclear stress tests OSCE chair Lithuania urged the security body's 56 member states Wednesday to conduct stress tests on their nuclear plants, in the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster. ... more | .. |
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Taiwan to upgrade nuclear plants after Japan quake Taiwan is preparing to upgrade the earthquake-resistant designs of its nuclear power plants in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan, the economic minister said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
TEPCO shares surge on compensation share report Shares in Tokyo Electric Power, the embattled operator of a stricken nuclear power plant, surged Wednesday on a report other Japanese power companies may be asked to share its compensation burden. ... more | .. |
  Fukushima 'not comparable' with Chernobyl: French watchdog The accident at Fukushima has released "significant" amounts of radiation but at levels and with an impact that are "not comparable" to Chernobyl, France's nuclear safety agency said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Japan raises nuclear disaster to Chernobyl level Japan upgraded its month-old nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises Tuesday, placing it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster a quarter-century ago. ... more |
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 Japan utility suspends nuclear expansion after crisis Japanese utility Kyushu Electric Power said Tuesday it had suspended plans to build a third reactor at one of its atomic plants after the country suffered the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. ... more | .. |
 Japan PM says nuclear plant 'stabilising step-by-step' Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday that the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant is gradually stabilising and that the amount of radiation being released is declining. ... more | .. |
 EPA, NRC checking for Japanese radiation Miniscule amounts of radiation from Japan's nuclear emergency have reached the United States but Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson assured U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that those amounts were well-monitored and far below dangerous levels. ... more | .. |
Worst over, but dangers persist at Japan plant A month after a deadly quake-tsunami hit a Japanese nuclear plant, the risk of a huge radiation leak has fallen but the danger is far from over, experts say - a risk brought sharply into focus by a powerful tremor Monday. ... more |
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 TEPCO boss tells Japan disaster zone: 'I'm sorry' The president of the embattled operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant visited Fukushima on Monday and apologised for the atomic emergency engulfing the area. ... more | .. |
 Japan minister visits stricken nuclear plant Japan's industry minister on Saturday met workers battling to cool overheating reactors and plug radioactive leaks in the first government visit to the country's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant. ... more | .. |
 Russia Urges Japan To Stop Radioactive Dumping Into Pacific Russia hopes that Japan will disclose full information about the situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant and will stop dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, the Foreign M ... more | .. |
 Japan to widen evacuation zone around nuclear plant Japan on Monday said it was to widen the evacuation area around a crippled nuclear plant to include territory outside the current 20-kilometre (12-mile) exclusion zone. ... more |
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Japan nuclear watchdog tightens safety rules Japan ordered all its nuclear power operators to secure more emergency generators Saturday, after an earthquake temporarily reduced one facility to relying on just a single electricity source. ... more | .. |
German nuclear companies halt environmental payments Four energy companies that run German nuclear plants said Saturday they have stopped payments to an environment fund after the government went back on its decision to keep the plants open for longer. ... more | .. |
 Britain's plans for nuclear waste on hold A plutonium waste reserve in the United Kingdom awaits reprocessing and sale, but in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster nobody wants it, officials say. ... more | .. |
 Switzerland says considering nuclear shutdown Switzerland is considering abandoning nuclear power, President Micheline Calmy-Rey said Monday following talks with her Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer in Vienna. ... more |
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Singapore nuclear decision "long way away": government Singapore is "a long way away" from a decision on whether to include nuclear power as part of its energy policy, a senior government official said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Siemens says received EUR1.62bn for Areva NP stake Siemens has received 1.62 billion euros ($2.35 billion) for the sale of its 34-percent stake in its joint venture with French group Areva, a spokesman for the German industrial giant said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Turkey-Japan talks on nuclear plant suspended: minister Ankara has temporarily suspended talks with Japan on building a nuclear plant in northern Turkey after Japan's nuclear disaster, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Researchers Improve Path To Producing Uranium Compounds For Advanced Nuclear Fuels Advances made by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory could enhance the ability of scientists to develop advanced nuclear fuels in a safer, simpler manner. Uranium chemistry research ... more |
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Toshiba 'could decommission Japan reactors in 10 years' Reactor maker Toshiba has told the government it could decommission four stricken units at Japan's crippled nuclear plant in around 10 years, a report said. ... more | .. |
  Four dead as new tremor hits Japan disaster zone A powerful aftershock rocked Japan's tsunami disaster zone, killing at least four and triggering new concerns over nuclear power plants in a region still grappling with an atomic emergency. ... more | .. |
 Radiation, legal fears slow Japan quake clean-up Nearly four weeks after a massive tsunami slammed into northeastern Japan, the devastation it left in its wake has barely been touched as radiation and legal issues hamper the clean-up. ... more | .. |
Japan using gas to avoid explosion at atomic plant Workers at Japan's stricken nuclear plant on Thursday pumped nitrogen into a crippled reactor in a bid to prevent a possible explosion, as the government mulled widening an exclusion zone around the site. ... more |
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Japan considers wider nuclear evacuation zone Japan said Thursday it is considering expanding the area covered by a compulsory evacuation order, with no immediate end in sight to the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. ... more | .. |
 Japan using gas to avoid explosion at nuclear plant Workers at Japan's stricken nuclear plant on Thursday pumped nitrogen gas into a crippled reactor in a bid to contain the world's worst atomic accident for 25 years and prevent a possible explosion. ... more | .. |
State of Japan's stricken nuclear reactors Workers grappling to control damaged nuclear reactors on Japan's northeast coast began pumping nitrogen into a containment vessel on Thursday. ... more |
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