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Ex-PM: Nuclear Emergency Laws Flawed

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.28.2012

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TOKYO — Japan's leader felt fearful and helpless during last year's nuclear disaster and lacked experts capable of giving him guidance, he testi...

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Japan Unlikely To Exit Nuclear Power

Reuters | Posted 05.26.2012

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By Linda Sieg TOKYO, May 25 (Reuters) - Japan is leaning toward a policy of halving nuclear power's share of electricity ...

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UN: Radiation Didn't Kill Fukushima Workers

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.23.2012

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VIENNA -- A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects sa...

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Japan Shuts Off Last Nuclear Reactors

YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 05.10.2012

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TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors Saturday, waving banners...

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LOOK: Most Expensive Natural Disaster Ever

Posted 03.12.2012

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One year after an earthquake and tsunami decimated the northeast coast of Japan, the country continues its extremely costly process of rebuilding. The...

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Nuclear Evacuation Fatal For Old, Sick

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.09.2012

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MINAMI-SOMA, Japan (AP) — The doctors and nurses at Futaba Hospital pleaded for help as a radioactive plume wafted over their hospital. They had bee...

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Mega-Disaster Goes Viral: Japan Tsunami's Social Media By The Numbers

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 03.09.2012

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When disaster struck Japan, online reactions to the earthquake and tsunami coursed through Twitter in near-record time. However, even with an unpr...

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LOOK: The State Of Nuclear Energy Around The World

Reuters/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.09.2012

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a massive tsunami that killed more than 19,000 people and left thousands missing. Th...

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Tsunami Survivor Yuichi Kowata: Government 'Reacted Too Late'

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 03.08.2012

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One year after the tsunami and earthquake that devastated the northeast coast of Japan and left thousands of people dead, Robert Michael Poole and pho...

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PHOTOS: Pictures Capture Heartbreak After Tsunami

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.02.2012

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It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan's coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pri...

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Thousands Of Nuclear Refugees Unable To Return Home

Reuters | Posted 04.13.2012

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By Chris Meyers OKUMA, Japan, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Back home for just three hours, a tearful Miyoko Takeda sorted through her belonging...

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Report Slams Japan's Nuclear Disaster Response

AP | By YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 02.25.2012

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TOKYO -- Japan's response to the nuclear crisis that followed the March 11 tsunami was confused and riddled with problems, including an erroneous assu...

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Waking Up to a Nuclear Nightmare

Erich Pica | Posted 09.24.2011

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The idea that nuclear energy could be a safe solution to the world's energy needs was never more than an empty dream. Clearly, nuclear is just another nightmare problem.

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Fearing Nuclear Power, Japan Looks To Hot Springs For Energy

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.06.2011

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BBC News reports that on the heels of Japan's nuclear disaster, the country is looking into other sources of energy, including geothermal. Geothermal ...

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The Health and Economic Aftershocks of Japan's Triple Disaster

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 11.11.2011

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Given Japan's global leadership role, there will be repercussions from this disaster on many sectors worldwide including in the United States. This chart details some of the observed and potential ripple effects.

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Japan Plant Clean-Up Suspended Due To Rising Radiation Levels

Reuters | Posted 08.17.2011

TOKYO, Jun 18 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, said on Saturday it had suspended an operation to clean ...

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President Of Company Behind Damaged Japan Nuclear Plant Stepping Down

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 07.19.2011

TOKYO — The president of the Japanese utility that runs a tsunami-devastated nuclear plant resigned in disgrace Friday after reporting the bigge...

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In Japan Reactor Failings, Danger Signs For The U.S.

New York Times | Posted 07.18.2011

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Emergency vents that American officials have said would prevent devastating hydrogen explosions at nuclear plants in the United States were put to the...

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Nuclear Regulators Criticized For Close Ties To Industry

The New York Times | TOM ZELLER Jr. | Posted 07.08.2011

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In the fall of 2007, workers at the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois were using a wire brush to clean a badly corroded steel pipe — one in a se...

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Workers Enter Japan Nuclear Reactor Building For First Time Since Explosion

AP | By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA | Posted 07.04.2011

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TOKYO -- Workers entered one of the damaged reactor buildings at Japan's stricken nuclear power plant Thursday for the first time since it was rocked ...

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Nuclear Industry's Trillion-Dollar Question

Posted 06.18.2011

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PARIS (Muriel Boselli and Geert De Clercq) - In the inbox of Petr Zavodsky, director of nuclear power plant construction at Czech power group CEZ ar...

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Japan Orders Nuclear Plant Operator To Pay Evacuees

AP | By SHINO YUASA and MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 06.14.2011

TOKYO -- Japan's government on Friday ordered the operator of a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant leaking radiation to pay about $12,000 to each household...

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Japan Set To Extend Nuclear Evacuation Zone

Posted 06.10.2011

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By Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka Tokyo -- (Reuters) - Japan said on Monday it may extend some parts of an evacuation zone around its crip...

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Japan Nuclear Leak: Radioactive Water Continues Pouring Into The Sea

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 06.03.2011

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TOKYO -- Engineers pinned their hopes on chemicals, sawdust and shredded newspaper to stop highly radioactive water pouring into the ocean from Japan'...

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The Empty Ritual of Energy Speeches

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.30.2011

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Every so often -- when gas prices are high, when oil sludge is pouring into the sea, or while a nuclear plant lies smoldering -- the sitting president stands before the American people to call for better energy policy.

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