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Japan plans to scrap nuclear plants after 40 years (AP)

CORRECTS DATE WHEN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TO JAN. 6, 2012 - FILE - This Nov. 12, 2011 photo shows a view of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Japan. Japan said Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 it will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety following the nuclear crisis set off by the March 11, 2011 tsunami. Concern about aging reactors has been growing because the three units at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant that went into meltdown following the tsunami were built starting in 1967. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)AP – Japan says it will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety following the nuclear crisis set off by last year’s tsunami.


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Can Web-savvy activist moms change Japan? (AP)

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 file photo, a smartphone shows a list of types and amounts of radiation on a package of Maitake mushrooms which is part of a radiation sampling test  at a Tokyo market. Japan's nuclear crisis has turned a 41-year-old mother into one of a small but growing number of Internet-savvy activist moms. In the days and weeks following the March 11 tsunami, frustration over the sketchy information coming from the government about the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant drove many Japanese to Twitter and alternative media webcasts. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP – Japan’s nuclear crisis has turned Mizuho Nakayama into one of a small but growing number of Internet-savvy activist moms.


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Japan releases 40-year nuke plant cleanup plan (AP)

FILE - In this March 12, 2011 file photo released by Tokyo Power Electric Co., the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant's Unit 1 is seen after an explosion in Okumam, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Power Electric Co., File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP – Japan’s government said Wednesday that it will take as many as 40 years to clean up and fully decommission a nuclear plant that went into meltdown after it was struck by a huge tsunami.


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1st look at Japan nuke plant: rubble amid progress (AP)

The Unit 4 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned vehicles, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months ago. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool)AP – Two reactor buildings once painted in a cheery sky blue loom over the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Their roofs are blasted away, their crumbled concrete walls reduced to steel frames.


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Japan OKs aid for tsunami-hit nuke plant operator (AP)

Aileen Mioko Smith, center, executive director of pro-sustainable energy NGO group Green Action, and supporters shout anti-nuclear slogans by a yarn ball made by women in Fukushima as they stage a sit-in demonstration, opposing the government's nuclear energy policy in front of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)AP – Japan has approved a plan to provide 900 billion yen ($11.5 billion) in public funds to the operator of a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant.


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IAEA team in Japan; Fukushima starts thyroid tests (AP)

A boy is taken by his mother to Fukushima Medical University Hospital for a thyroid test in Fukushima, northern Japan, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011. Local doctors began a long-term survey of children for thyroid abnormalities, a problem associated with radiation exposure. Officials hope to test some 360,000 people who were under the age of 18 when the nuclear crisis began in March, and then provide follow-ups throughout their lifetimes. Japanese on the board reads: a thyroid test entrance. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP – Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in the Japanese city of Fukushima on Sunday to observe the massive decontamination effort following the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.


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Typhoon headed toward Japan disaster zone

A powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan’s tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast Wednesday, approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for the evacuation of more than a million people.

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