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Japan marks anniversary of nuclear disaster The urgency was such that Saito's wife left their dog Maru tied to a pole near the home. But what Saito's family, along with the rest of Japan, didn't realize, was that the situation in the Fukushima plant was quickly becoming a disaster of its own, one that would shock the country as much as the earthquake itself.
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Fukushima news, articles and information: 11/18/2015 - Radioactive cesium from the 2011 Fukushima disaster is still being detected in citrus and other plants as far away as Florida, according to a report sent to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). In March 2011, multiple nuclear meltdowns took place at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan....
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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故, Fukushima Dai-ichi ( pronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011.
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- Anyone, using Fukushima or Chernobyl against nuclear power is just fibbing. Chernobyl’s RBMK reactors were/are illegal everywhere outside the Soviet Union. They were known to be unstable and were simply intended for making weapons Plutonium.
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Southern Nuclear read all Southern Nuclear news stories here. The company operates a total of six units for Alabama Power and Georgia Power at the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Ala.; the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Ga., and the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Ga.
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Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Nuclear Event Scale It may appear that Fukushima Daiichi is just as serious an accident as Chernobyl, but there are significant differences. Chernobyl is the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power to cause deaths from radiation. Twenty-eight reactor staff and emergency workers died from radiation and thermal burns within four months of the accident, and 19 more died by the end of 2004.
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- The Commission found the nuclear disaster was manmade, that the direct causes of the accident were all foreseeable prior to 11 March 2011. The report also found that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was incapable of withstanding the earthquake and tsunami.
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Fukushima Nuclear Accident Resources, news updates and other relevant information on the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.
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Japan marks anniversary of nuclear disaster As the Fukushima plant was melting down, more than 300,000 people living nearby were evacuated, according to the Red Cross. Five years after the disaster, tens of thousands still live in temporary housing only intended to last 24 months. Most of those who remain are elderly, with few options to move away.
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Fukushima's nuclear power mess: Five big questions The meltdowns of three reactors at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant may have happened more than two years ago, but the disaster remains a giant, unresolved mess. An earthquake in 2011 triggered a tsunami which slammed into the plant, disabling it.
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Fukushima Accident Following the earthquake, tsunami, and failure of cooling systems at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant and issues concerning other nuclear facilities in Japan on 11 March 2011, a nuclear emergency was declared.he 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami caused a large number of displaced people. The number of the evacuees, as of 26 January 2012, was 341,411. Some earthquake survivors died in the shelters or in the process of evacuation. Many shelters struggled to feed evacuees and were not medically sufficiently equipped.
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What is Chernobyl? Chernobyl was largely abandoned following the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located 14.5 kilometres (9 miles) away. Ukraine was part of Russia on the 26th April 1986 when the disaster occurred.
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- Only one U.S. plant has been approved since the disaster -- Southern Co.’s two reactors at Plant Vogtle site in Georgia. In fact, it is the first nuclear power plant approved in the U.S. in more than three decades. Yet some U.S. states rely heavily on nuclear energy.
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The 3/11 disasters, five years on Last year, the government revised its policy on reconstruction of the Fukushima areas hit by the nuclear disaster, and now plans to encourage the return of residents in areas where radiation has come down to relatively low levels by lifting the evacuation order and other restrictions there by March 2017.
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Yakushima, Kagoshima Yakushima (屋久島町, Yakushima-chō) is a town located in Kumage District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The town is on the island of Yakushima and Kuchinoerabujima.On October 1, 2007, the town was formed by the merger of the towns of Kamiyaku and Yaku, both from Kumage District. As of 2008, the town has an estimated population of 13,486 and the density of 24.9 persons per km². The total area is 540.98 km².Yakushima Airport serves Yakushima.n October 1, 2007, the town was formed by the merger of the towns of Kamiyaku and Yaku, both from Kumage District. As of 2008, the town has an estimated population of 13,486 and the density of 24.9 persons per km². The total area is 540.98 km². Yakushima Airport serves Yakushima.
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Yakushima Yakushima is located approximately 61.3 kilometres (38.1 mi) south of the southern tip of Osumi Peninsula in southern Kyushu, or 135 kilometres (73 nmi) south of Kagoshima.The Vincennes Strait (Yakushima Kaikyō) separates it from the nearby island of Tanegashima, which is home to the Japanese Space Centre.akushima is Japan's wettest place, and annual precipitation in Yakushima is one of the world's highest at 4,000 to 10,000 mm. It is said by the locals to rain 35 days a month. There are drier periods in autumn and winter, while the heaviest downpours occur in spring and summer, often accompanied by landslides.
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At least 6 killed in new Japan earthquake The Tokyo Electric Power Company said 220,000 households and businesses in Fukushima were without power after Monday's quake. Japan has been hit with hundreds of aftershocks since the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that killed at least 13,116 people.
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Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors In over 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of commercial operation in 32 countries, there have been only three major accidents to nuclear power plants - Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima - the second being of little relevance to reactor design outside the old Soviet bloc.
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What Is Fukushima? Everything To Know About Nuclear Disaster At Daiichi Power Plant The coastal prefecture of Fukushima has faced a difficult road since a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked the area in 2011, killing tens of thousands and causing its nuclear reactor to melt down, leaking radiation and rendering the surrounding provinces uninhabitable.
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The Yakuza and the Nuclear Mafia: Nationalization Looms for TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the monolithic corporation that controls all electric power in Greater Tokyo, and runs the Fukushima Daichii nuclear plant that experienced a triple meltdown following the March 11 earthquake, is on the brink of nationalization according to Japanese government sources.
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Americaâs 10 Most Popular Cars Tweet. There is more than one way to measure a car’s popularity. The most traditional is monthly and annual sales. This list has been dominated by full-sized pickups, such as the Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) F-150, and fuel-efficient, inexpensive cars like the Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) Camry.
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Two Meltdowns: Fukushima and the US Economy After a twenty-year campaign, public attitude shifted and nuclear power was embraced as the fire of hope in the twenty-first century. Japan powered up Fukushima unit 1 on October 10, 1970, and built 53 more reactors. An atomic cult assured citizens that nuclear power was safe.
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Japan earthquake: Explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant Media caption Damian Grammaticas reports on the destruction wrought by the tsunami in Sendai. A powerful explosion has hit a nuclear power station in north-eastern Japan which was badly damaged in Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami. A building housing a reactor was destroyed, but authorities said the reactor itself was intact.
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Georgia (U.S. state) Our Nuclear Energy Plants. Hatch nuclear plant, located near Baxley in southeastern Georgia. Georgia Power's nuclear facilities, Plant Hatch and Plant Vogtle, are two of the three nuclear facilities in the Southern Company system.
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Japan earthquake kills nine; more aftershocks expected Regulators also moved to allay fears around the country's nuclear plants, with the country's only facility currently online in Sendai unaffected. The Genkai plant, which is located on Kyushu, also reported no problems.
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Nuclear leak in Japan quake reactor causes radiation levels to rocket 1,250 times normal level in surrounding seawater Nuclear leak in Japan quake reactor causes radiation levels to rocket 1,250 times normal level in surrounding seawater. Radiation levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima plant core, Japanese nuclear safety officials warned today.
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Nuclear leak in Japan quake reactor causes radiation levels to rocket 1,250 times normal level in surrounding seawater Workers, who stepped into radiation-contaminated water at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, are shielded with tarpaulins before receiving decontamination treatment at a nearby hospital. Warning: Radiation readings on Saturday morning in Tokyo are six times higher than normal at 0.22 microsieverts per hour.