The first anniversary is approaching of the March, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that devastated Fukushima, Japan, and later this year debris from that event should begin to wash up on U.S. shores – and one question many have asked is whether that wil…
Archive | 23 février 2012
Oregon State University Looks at Risks from Japan post-Tsunami and post-Fukushima (advanced nanotechnology)
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Animation tracks 25 million tons of Japan tsunami debris – msnbc.com
msnbc.comAnimation tracks 25 million tons of Japan tsunami debrismsnbc.comHoisting up to a Russian ship, the STS Pallada, a Japanese boat registered to Fukushima prefecture and, presumably, washed into the ocean during the March 11, 2011 tsunami. By Br…
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23/02/2012France, China can learn from Fukushima: French minister – Expatica France
RFI23/02/2012France, China can learn from Fukushima: French ministerExpatica FranceBesson, who met his counterpart Miao Wei and officials from the Chinese nuclear industry, told AFP he had proposed that "China and France pull together all the less…
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For disaster debris arriving from Japan, radiation least of the concerns – The Cannon Beach Gazette
msnbc.comFor disaster debris arriving from Japan, radiation least of the concernsThe Cannon Beach GazetteKathryn Higley, a radiation health physicist at Oregon State University, studies uptake of uranium contaminants in plants, information that may hel…
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US NRC staff recommends post-Fukushima nuclear safety upgrades (Michele Kearney’s Nuclear Wire)
US NRC staff recommends post-Fukushima nuclear safety upgrades Platts The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission should order nuclear power plants to take a variety of measures to enhance their ability to withstand severe earthquakes and floods, such as thos…
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NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety standards (Michele Kearney’s Nuclear Wire)
NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety standards Power Engineering Magazine The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) on Feb. 17 proposed three rules to address safety-related issues following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power pl…
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Low Levels of Fallout from Fukushima Release (ENN: Top Stories)
There is always concern when something radioactive is released as to what its downwind effects might be. Certainly there are effects at the actual site but thousands of miles away? Fallout from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power facility in Japa…
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Récits de Fukushima – Bande-annonce
Récits de Fukushima – Bande-annonce
8 films de 8'. Les gens de Fukushima se racontent. "Récits de Fukushima" est une web série documentaire d'ARTE (8 x 7 minutes) diffusée sur www.arte.tv à partir…
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Extrait "Fukushima, une population sacrifiée"
Extrait "Fukushima, une population sacrifiée"
Extrait : "Fukushima, une population sacrifiée" Documentaire 52', Prod. : Scientifilms Réal. : David Zavaglia / Diff. : LCP Assemblée nationale, 9/03/1…
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extrait 26 fukushima_1.wmv
extrait 26 fukushima_1.wmv
Extrait de : "Fukushima, un an déjà" Reportage, 26', 2012, Prod. : Scientifilms Réal. : David Zavaglia. Diff. : France O, Planète investigation, 29/02/12 à 20 h 30
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Japan: Children’s radiation doses to guide decontamination in Fukushima Pref. city (H5N1)
Via The Mainichi Daily News: Children’s radiation doses to guide decontamination in Fukushima Pref. city. Excerpt: SOMA, Fukushima — City authorities here will prioritize decontamination of areas where children’s external radiation exposure is estimat…
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French Energy Minister visits Fukushima disaster site – RFI
RFIFrench Energy Minister visits Fukushima disaster siteRFIBy Rosslyn Hyams French Industry and Energy Minister Eric Besson has became the first foreign official to visit the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, which was devastated by a tsunami …
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NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety standards – Power Engineering Magazine
NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety standardsPower Engineering Magazine17 proposed three rules to address safety-related issues following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The rules, the first since the NRC establ…
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Radiation from tsunami debris won’t be unsafe – Albany Democrat Herald
Dalje.comRadiation from tsunami debris won't be unsafeAlbany Democrat HeraldKathryn Higley, a radiation health physicist at Oregon State University, studies uptake of uranium contaminants in plants, information that may help address cleanup issues …
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Hosono sees bigger govt role in Japan nuclear power – Reuters
EnformableHosono sees bigger govt role in Japan nuclear powerReutersBy Shinichi Saoshiro | TOKYO Feb 23 (Reuters) – The government should play a bigger part in managing Japan's nuclear power industry , its role currently being questioned following …
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Triste anniversaire à Fukushima.mp4
Triste anniversaire à Fukushima.mp4
Vidéo officiel du 23 02 2012 – Rien à changé à Fukushima sauf qu'on vous fait croire que tout est sous contrôle, la pollution mondiale continue, alors vous pouvez toujo…
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Japan may cut Iran oil imports by over 20 percent – Reuters
CNBC.comJapan may cut Iran oil imports by over 20 percentReutersJapan, the world's third biggest oil importer, last year bought almost 9 percent of its crude from Iran and its dependence on fuel imports has increased because almost all its power-ge…
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The Fukushima Disaster One Year On – Green Prophet
ArabianBusiness.comThe Fukushima Disaster One Year OnGreen ProphetIn the lead up to the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident, Greenpeace have published a report looking back at the incident. As well as documenting the legacy of the nucle…
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Shadownlands: Greenpeace & the World Revisits Fukushima (Everything PR)
When the devastating Tsunami struck Northern Japan last year, when Fukushima’s drama unfolded, millions were aghast at the enormity of the disaster. Japan, the technological and cultural envy of the world, unveiled as a country not unlike any other
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Kuwait abandons nuclear programme after Fukushima fallout – ArabianBusiness.com
ArabianBusiness.comKuwait abandons nuclear programme after Fukushima falloutArabianBusiness.comBy Elizabeth Broomhall Kuwait has scrapped its plans to build four nuclear reactors by 2022, following the crisis in Fukushima last March. Kuwait has abandon…
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Children’s radiation doses to guide decontamination in Fukushima Pref. city – Mainichi Daily News
Mainichi Daily NewsChildren's radiation doses to guide decontamination in Fukushima Pref. cityMainichi Daily NewsWorkers use high-pressure water cleaners to decontaminate a roof in the city of Fukushima. Some say the method is insufficient. (Mainic…
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Tohoku Electric may issue bonds for 1st time after Fukushima crisis – Power Engineering Magazine
Globe and MailTohoku Electric may issue bonds for 1st time after Fukushima crisisPower Engineering MagazineTohoku Electric Power Co. is preparing to issue bonds worth 25 billion yen, in what would be the first bond issuance by a Japanese utility operat…
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Some Good News Leaks from Fukushima (Robert Kyriakides’s Weblog)
We associate Fukushima with a flooded broken nuclear power reactor, rather than good news, but good news has come from some research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whose vessel has been measuring sea and sea organism radioactivity in the…
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Tohoku Electric may issue bonds for 1st time after Fukushima crisis – Mainichi Daily News
swissinfo.chTohoku Electric may issue bonds for 1st time after Fukushima crisisMainichi Daily NewsSENDAI (Kyodo) — Tohoku Electric Power Co. is preparing to issue bonds worth 25 billion yen, in what would be the first bond issuance by a Japanese utili…
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Firm helps avert further disaster at Fukushima – Charleston Regional Business
Firm helps avert further disaster at FukushimaCharleston Regional BusinessBy Chuck Crumbo A few weeks after a massive earthquake and tsunami ravaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station last March, Avantech Inc. got a call. The Japanese nuclear …
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US geological survey records low radioactive fallout from Fukushima – Indiatalkies.com (India Talkies)
Washington, Feb 23(ANI): The U.S. – Indiatalkies.comSource : India TalkiesExplore : Asia, Japan, World
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Firefighters’ key Fukushima mission – BBC News
BBC NewsFirefighters' key Fukushima missionBBC NewsOne of the key tasks in preventing the risk of nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan a year ago, was carried out by a team of Tokyo firefighters. In dangerous radiation l…
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VIDEO: Firefighters’ key Fukushima mission (BBC News)
Tokyo firefighters had just 60 minutes to carry out a mission to help avert nuclear disaster at Fukushima a year ago.Source : BBC NewsExplore : Asia, Japan, World
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From Rocky Flats to Fukushima: this nuclear folly (The Woman Rebel "No Gods, No Maste)
… at various publishing houses. Then, Japan was hit by a tsunami, and the cooling systems of the Fukushima nuclear reactor were overwhelmed, giving the world apocalyptic images of toxic floods and floating cars, of whole provinces made uninhabitable….
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19-day walk to mark one-year anniversary of nuclear accident in Fukushima – Boston.com
Boston.com19-day walk to mark one-year anniversary of nuclear accident in FukushimaBoston.comBy Wendy Killeen MARCH FOR PEACE: Remember Fukushima, A 19-day walk marking the one-year anniversary of the Japanese nuclear accident begins on the New Hampshi…
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19-day walk to mark one-year anniversary of nuclear accident in Fukushima – Boston.com
Boston.com19-day walk to mark one-year anniversary of nuclear accident in FukushimaBoston.comBy Wendy Killeen MARCH FOR PEACE: Remember Fukushima, A 19-day walk marking the one-year anniversary of the Japanese nuclear accident begins on the New Hampshi…
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19-day walk to mark anniversary of Fukushima nuclear accident – Boston Globe
Boston Globe19-day walk to mark anniversary of Fukushima nuclear accidentBoston GlobeMARCH FOR PEACE: Remember Fukushima, A 19-day walk marking the one-year anniversary of the Japanese nuclear accident begins on the New Hampshire Seacoast March 3. Peop…
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19-day walk to mark one-year anniversary of nuclear accident in Fukushima (Boston Globe)
Remember Fukushima, a 19-day walk that passes through four New England states – all home to a nuclear power plant – kicks off in Seacoast New Hampshire March 3. Students at Masconomet Regional High School in Topsfield and Nashoba Valley Technical High …
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Radioactive Fallout From Fukushima Posed Little Threat to the U.S. (Time)
Nearly a year after the Japanese tsunami and subsequent meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the good news is that the risk from radiation doesn’t seem to be as high as many initially fearedSource : TimeExplore : Asia, Japan, World
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From Rocky Flats to Fukushima: this nuclear folly – OpEdNews
OpEdNewsFrom Rocky Flats to Fukushima: this nuclear follyOpEdNewsThen, Japan was hit by a tsunami, and the cooling systems of the Fukushima nuclear reactor were overwhelmed, giving the world apocalyptic images of toxic floods and floating cars, of whol…
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Tepco Said to Be in Talks for 1.07 Trillion Yen of Borrowing – Bloomberg
BloombergTepco Said to Be in Talks for 1.07 Trillion Yen of BorrowingBloomberg(Tepco) Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power statio in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) is in talks with banks and life insurers for loans…
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New study confirms low levels of fallout from Fukushima (Michele Kearney’s Nuclear Wire)
New study confirms low levels of fallout from Fukushima Fallout from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power facility in Japan was measured in minimal amounts in precipitation in the United States in about 20 percent of 167 sites sampled in a nationw…
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New study confirms low levels of fallout from Fukushima (Michele Kearney’s Nuclear Wire)
New study confirms low levels of fallout from Fukushima Fallout from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power facility in Japan was measured in minimal amounts in precipitation in the United States in about 20 percent of 167 sites sampled in a nationw…
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Lessons Learned From Japan Tsunami & Meltdown at Fukushima: Rethink Nuclear Power (Michele Kearney’s Nuclear Wire)
Lessons Learned From Japan Tsunami & Meltdown at Fukushima: Rethink Nuclear Power PR Newswire UK (press release) Governments all over the globe using nuclear power should rethink their choices after the meltdown at Fukushima in Japan last year. Accordi…
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Lessons Learned From Japan Tsunami & Meltdown at Fukushima: Rethink Nuclear Power (Michele Kearney’s Nuclear Wire)
Lessons Learned From Japan Tsunami & Meltdown at Fukushima: Rethink Nuclear Power PR Newswire UK (press release) Governments all over the globe using nuclear power should rethink their choices after the meltdown at Fukushima in Japan last year. Accordi…
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Falldown: Radioactive Fallout From Fukushima Posed Little Threat to the US – TIME (blog)
AFPFalldown: Radioactive Fallout From Fukushima Posed Little Threat to the USTIME (blog)By Bryan Walsh | @bryanrwalsh | February 22, 2012 | + Nearly a year after the Japanese tsunami and subsequent meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the good news…
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NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety orders – Reuters
NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety ordersReutersMarch 11 will mark the first anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years when an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan's northeast coast, …
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NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety orders – Reuters UK
NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety ordersReuters UKMarch 11 will mark the first anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years when an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan's northeast coas…
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UPDATE 1-NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety orders (Reuters UK)
* Timeline calls for full compliance in 2016 (Recasts, adds detail)Source : Reuters UKExplore : Asia, Japan, World
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UPDATE 1-NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety orders (Reuters UK)
* Timeline calls for full compliance in 2016 (Recasts, adds detail)Source : Reuters UKExplore : Asia, Japan, World
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Report on Fukushima fallout released – UPI.com
Fredericksburg.com (blog)Report on Fukushima fallout releasedUPI.com22 (UPI) — Fallout from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan was detected in minimal amounts in precipitation in the United States, a study released Wednesday said. The study by…
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US NRC staff recommends post-Fukushima nuclear safety upgrades – Platts
US NRC staff recommends post-Fukushima nuclear safety upgradesPlattsThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission should order nuclear power plants to take a variety of measures to enhance their ability to withstand severe earthquakes and floods, such as those …
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Cruise finds Fukushima pollution – BBC News
BBC NewsCruise finds Fukushima pollutionBBC NewsBy Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, Salt Lake City Radioactive elements from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected in seawater and marine organisms up to 600km from Ja…
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Cruise finds Fukushima pollution (BBC News)
An international research cruise off Japan detects radioactivity in sampled seawater and marine organisms, but well within safe levels.Source : BBC NewsExplore : Asia, Japan, World
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