Source: The Japan Times
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Kyodo
NISA on Monday more than doubled its estimate of the radioactive material ejected into the air in the early days of the Fukushima nuclear crisis to 770,000 terabecquerels.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
6/6/2011 | Germany hastens first reactor closures
Source: WNN (World Nuclear News)
Date: 6/6/2011
Three of Germany's operating nuclear reactors will close before the end of the decade under draft legislation which firms up the arrangements leading to a phaseout of nuclear power.
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Date: 6/6/2011
Three of Germany's operating nuclear reactors will close before the end of the decade under draft legislation which firms up the arrangements leading to a phaseout of nuclear power.
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6/7/2011 JST | Gov't may expand scope of evacuation order in Fukushima
Source: Japan Today
Date: Tuesday 07th June, 06:22 AM JST
TOKYO — The government is considering expanding the scope of its evacuation order to include people from certain spots that are emitting high levels of radiation as a result of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March, government officials said Monday.
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Date: Tuesday 07th June, 06:22 AM JST
TOKYO — The government is considering expanding the scope of its evacuation order to include people from certain spots that are emitting high levels of radiation as a result of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March, government officials said Monday.
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6/5/2011 | White House & NRC Recommend 50 Mile Fukushima Evacuation, Yet Insist US Safe With Only 10
Source: Fairewinds Associates
Date: Sunday June 5, 2011
by: Arnie Gundersen
White House & NRC Recommend 50 Mile Fukushima Evacuation, Yet Insist US Safe With Only 10 from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Fairewinds' chief engineer Arnie Gundersen emphasizes the need to enlarge evacuation zones around US nuclear plants to 50 miles. Reducing US evacuation zones to only 10 miles during a nuclear power accident compromises public safety.
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Date: Sunday June 5, 2011
by: Arnie Gundersen
White House & NRC Recommend 50 Mile Fukushima Evacuation, Yet Insist US Safe With Only 10 from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Fairewinds' chief engineer Arnie Gundersen emphasizes the need to enlarge evacuation zones around US nuclear plants to 50 miles. Reducing US evacuation zones to only 10 miles during a nuclear power accident compromises public safety.
Click here for searchable nuclear power plant map from CNN Money
6/6/2011 JST | TEPCO mulls ways to cut humidity in No.2 reactor
Source: NHK World
Date: Monday, June 06, 2011 05:13 +0900 (JST)
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it will try to reduce humidity inside the Number 2 reactor building.
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Date: Monday, June 06, 2011 05:13 +0900 (JST)
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it will try to reduce humidity inside the Number 2 reactor building.
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6/6/2011 JST | Workers at Fukushima plant treated for dehydration
Source: NHK World
Date: Monday, June 06, 2011 05:13 +0900 (JST)
Two workers at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been treated for dehydration at a hospital.
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Date: Monday, June 06, 2011 05:13 +0900 (JST)
Two workers at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been treated for dehydration at a hospital.
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6/6/2011 JST | Local governments cutting off welfare benefits to some survivors
Source: The Japan Times
Date: Monday, June 6, 2011
KYODO
SENDAI — Local authorities in disaster-hit Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures have stopped providing welfare benefits to some survivors, lawyers and civic groups said Saturday.
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Date: Monday, June 6, 2011
KYODO
SENDAI — Local authorities in disaster-hit Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures have stopped providing welfare benefits to some survivors, lawyers and civic groups said Saturday.
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6/6/2011 JST | Water treatment system tested
Source: The Japan Times
Date: Monday, June 6, 2011
Kyodo
Workers on Sunday began checking devices that will help decontaminate the radioactive water that is flooding the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, officials said.
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Date: Monday, June 6, 2011
Kyodo
Workers on Sunday began checking devices that will help decontaminate the radioactive water that is flooding the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, officials said.
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6/5/2011 | Japan’s DPJ Leaders Seek to Limit Kan’s Tenure as Pressure to Quit Grows
Source: Bloomberg
Date: Jun 5, 2011 10:01 AM CT
by: Kana Nishizawa and Shunichi Ozasa
Senior lawmakers of Japan’s ruling party sought to limit Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s tenure in office amid internal divisions over his promise to step down at an unspecified time.
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Date: Jun 5, 2011 10:01 AM CT
by: Kana Nishizawa and Shunichi Ozasa
Senior lawmakers of Japan’s ruling party sought to limit Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s tenure in office amid internal divisions over his promise to step down at an unspecified time.
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6/5/2011 | Some workers overexposed to radiation, fed data shows doses above safe limits
Source: The Canadian Press
Date: Sunday 6/5/2011
by: Steve Rennie
OTTAWA — Some medical specialists and other workers have been overexposed to radiation, a few getting doses high enough to change their blood chemistry and even cause radiation sickness, The Canadian Press has learned.
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Date: Sunday 6/5/2011
by: Steve Rennie
OTTAWA — Some medical specialists and other workers have been overexposed to radiation, a few getting doses high enough to change their blood chemistry and even cause radiation sickness, The Canadian Press has learned.
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6/4/2011 | ITALIAN ONCOLOGISTS BACK 'YES' AT THE NUCLEAR REFERENDUM
Source: AGI News
Date: 6/4/2011
AGI) Chicago - Italian oncologists unite to back the anti-nuclear referendum. From the ASCO congress in Chicago, the world's most important oncology summit, AIOM (Italian association of medical oncology) urges the people to vote 'yes' at the referendum to be held on 12 and 13 June. "Nuclear radiation is the most carcinogenic thing that exists - said AIOM president Carmelo Iacono - and it cannot be kept under control, as the Fukushima tragedy proved. Let's drop the nuclear plants project and let's start staking on alternative energy, which pollutes much less and which, unlike nuclear energy, does not pose a threat for health". . .
Date: 6/4/2011
AGI) Chicago - Italian oncologists unite to back the anti-nuclear referendum. From the ASCO congress in Chicago, the world's most important oncology summit, AIOM (Italian association of medical oncology) urges the people to vote 'yes' at the referendum to be held on 12 and 13 June. "Nuclear radiation is the most carcinogenic thing that exists - said AIOM president Carmelo Iacono - and it cannot be kept under control, as the Fukushima tragedy proved. Let's drop the nuclear plants project and let's start staking on alternative energy, which pollutes much less and which, unlike nuclear energy, does not pose a threat for health". . .
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