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Japanese Nuclear Plant Operator Bailed Out To The Tune Of $12.8 Billion

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 09.30.2012 | World
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ONAGAWA, Japan — The Japanese operator of the nuclear power plant devastated in last year's disasters received a 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion) ...

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More Than 100,000 Protest Nuclear Power

Reuters | Posted 09.15.2012 | World
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By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) - More than 100,000 anti-nuclear protesters marched through central Tokyo on Monday to voi...

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Nuclear Disaster Was Man-Made Crisis

Reuters | Posted 09.03.2012 | World
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By Risa Maeda and Linda Sieg TOKYO, July 5 (Reuters) - Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster result...

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Japan's Return To Nuclear Power

AP | Posted 09.03.2012 | World
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TOKYO (AP) — Nuclear power returned to Japan's energy mix for the first time in two months Thursday, hours before a parliamentary panel blamed the g...

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PM: Japan Should Wean Itself Off Nuclear Power

Reuters | Posted 08.15.2012 | World
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TOKYO, June 15 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Friday that the country should aim to reduce reliance on nuclear power as ...

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Japan Shuts Off Last Nuclear Reactors

YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 07.05.2012 | Green
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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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RESTART THE REACTORS: Japan Sets New Guidelines For Nuclear Power Plants

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 06.06.2012 | World
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TOKYO — Japan announced new guidelines Friday for how its nuclear power plants try to prevent disasters like last year's meltdowns, as the gover...

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Electric Cars' Green Reputation On The Line In Japan

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 05.23.2012 | Green
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TOKYO (AP) — Electric car owners who prided themselves on being green now find themselves in a bind as Japan's government maneuvers to restart dozen...

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Nobel Winner Urges Japan To Abandon Nuclear Power

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 11.06.2011 | Green
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TOKYO — Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe urged Japan's new prime minister on Tuesday to halt plans to restart nuclear power plants and instead abando...

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Japan Premier Seeks Nuclear Power Phaseout

AP | Posted 09.12.2011 | World
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's prime minister said Wednesday he wants his country to learn from its ongoing crisis and become less reliant on nuclear energy. ...

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TEPCO's Credit Rating Reduced To Junk By Moody's

Posted 08.20.2011 | Business
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TOKYO - Moody's Investors Service cut its credit rating on Tokyo Electric Power Co to junk status on Monday and kept the operator of Japan's cripp...

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Japan Notwithstanding, Few in Washington Will Ever Dare say No to Nuclear Energy

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The nuclear energy industry has perfected its financial marriage of convenience with the government over the past decade. And with the perennial scare of energy source depletion, few in Washington will ever dare say no to it.

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Japan's Nuclear Industry Riddled With Scandals

AP | By YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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TOKYO -- Behind Japan's escalating nuclear crisis sits a scandal-ridden energy industry in a comfy relationship with government regulators often willi...

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Wisdom or Fatal Folly

Jonathan Granoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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Jonathan Granoff

It is supreme arrogance to think that we will not make mistakes of judgment, that machines will not err or that human negligence can be avoided. The tragedy in Japan is a strong and deplorable wake-up call.

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State Of Emergency Declared At Second Nuclear Plant

AP/The Huffington Post | ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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KORIYAMA, Japan (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency says Japan has declared a state of emergency at another earthquake-affected nuclear plant where h...

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How Bad Is The Nuclear Accident In Japan?

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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NEW YORK (Scott DiSavino) – The Japanese nuclear safety agency rated the damage at a nuclear power plant at Fukushima at a four on a scale of one to...

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