12/8/2011 Ohio Nuke Plant Damage More Severe Than Previously Admitted

Source: Dennis Kucinich via Activist Post
Date: 12/7/2011

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today questioned whether FirstEnergy has been entirely upfront with the people of Ohio over the extent of the damage to the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. Kucinich requested full public disclosure of all relevant photographs, test results, analyses and reports by FirstEnergy after comparing reassuring public statements made about the damage by FirstEnergy officials to disquieting information received from the NRC during a briefing yesterday for the Congressman’s staff.
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12/10/2011 Radioactive water leaked at second Japan plant

Source: AFP via The Raw Story
Date: 12/10/2011

Topics: japanese nuclear plant ♦ nuclear plant ♦ radioactive water

A Japanese nuclear plant leaked 1.8 tonnes of radioactive water from its cooling system, the government said, heightening safety worries as an atomic crisis continues at another plant.

The leak, discovered Friday, caused no environmental impact as it was contained within an idled reactor at the Genkai nuclear plant in Saga prefecture in the southern Kyushu region, officials said.

Workers are still scrambling to contain a separate ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, triggered by the March earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan.
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Editor's Note: Map of Genkai Nuclear Power Plant below.
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