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Japan foresaw possible Fukushima meltdown from day one: documents
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government foresaw the possibility of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant hours after a huge tsunami smashed into it, according to cabinet minutes released on Friday, although it took officials more than a month to acknowledge it. The earthquake and tsunami on March 11 knocked out cooling systems at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (Tepco) Fukushima Daiichi plant, triggering the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986. “Cooling functions still in service are those run by batteries. …
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Japan plans to scrap nuclear plants after 40 years (AP)
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)
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)
AP – 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)
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)
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)
AP – 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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