Green Energy
- Japan's Toxic Water Leak
Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said a toxic water leak at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant has been classified as a level 3 "serious incident" on an international scale. The Nuclear Regulation Authority...
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Breaking - Blast rocks nuclear plant in France At least one person has been killed and three more wounded in an explosion which rocked on Monday a nuclear power plant in Marcoule, southern France. According to emergency services, there is a risk...
- Meltdown Alert At Japan Reactor: Explosion Heard At Third Nuclear Plant
From AJC: SOMA, Japan — A third explosion in four days rocked the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan early Tuesday, the country's nuclear safety agency said. The blast at Dai-ichi Unit 2 followed two hydrogen...
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Daily Mail: Japan's nightmare gets even WORSE: All THREE damaged nuclear reactors now in 'meltdown' at tsunami-hit power station By Richard Shears The Japanese nuclear reactor hit by the tsunami went into 'meltdown' today, as officials...
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US experts fear 'Chernobyl-like' crisis for Japan WASHINGTON - US nuclear experts warned Saturday that pumping sea water to cool a quake-hit Japanese nuclear reactor was an "act of desperation" that may foreshadow a Chernobyl-like disaster....
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'They've lost control': French claim Japan is hiding full scale of nuclear disaster as TWO more reactors heat up
Japan's stricken nuclear power plant was abandoned for hours today, as soaring radiation forced emergency workers to flee for their lives and authorities were reduced to spraying reactors with police water cannons.
All 50 emergency workers who had been fighting to keep overheating reactors cool were this morning pulled back 500 yards from the complex as radiation levels became too dangerous.
And in an extraordinary attack, the French government accused the Japanese of losing control of the situation and hiding the full scale of the disaster.Click on the title to get the whole story.
'Out of control': This dramatic pictures shows radioactive steam pouring from the Fukushima reactor number three after it was damaged in an explosion
Fears of 'an apocalypse' were raised by European officials as radiation levels soared. In another attack, French Industry Minister Eric Besson said: 'Let's not beat about the bush. They have visibly lost the essential of control (of the situation). That is our analysis, in any case, it's not what they are saying.'
In a sign of mounting panic, Cabinet Secretary Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has already warned that the long-range cooling efforts may not work.
He said: 'It's not so simple that everything will be resolved by pouring in water. We are trying to avoid creating other problems.'
- Japan's Toxic Water Leak
Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said a toxic water leak at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant has been classified as a level 3 "serious incident" on an international scale. The Nuclear Regulation Authority...
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Breaking - Blast rocks nuclear plant in France At least one person has been killed and three more wounded in an explosion which rocked on Monday a nuclear power plant in Marcoule, southern France. According to emergency services, there is a risk...
- Meltdown Alert At Japan Reactor: Explosion Heard At Third Nuclear Plant
From AJC: SOMA, Japan — A third explosion in four days rocked the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan early Tuesday, the country's nuclear safety agency said. The blast at Dai-ichi Unit 2 followed two hydrogen...
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Daily Mail: Japan's nightmare gets even WORSE: All THREE damaged nuclear reactors now in 'meltdown' at tsunami-hit power station By Richard Shears The Japanese nuclear reactor hit by the tsunami went into 'meltdown' today, as officials...
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US experts fear 'Chernobyl-like' crisis for Japan WASHINGTON - US nuclear experts warned Saturday that pumping sea water to cool a quake-hit Japanese nuclear reactor was an "act of desperation" that may foreshadow a Chernobyl-like disaster....