Posts Tagged ‘nuke’
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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AP Exclusive: New signs of Syria-Pakistan nuke tie (AP)
AP – U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms.
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Ex-PM feared for Japan’s survival in nuke crisis (AP)
AP – Japan’s former prime minister says he feared early in the March nuclear crisis that it might become many times worse than the Chernobyl disaster and threaten the nation’s survival.
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UN: Credible evidence Iran working on nuke weapons (AP)
AP – The U.N. nuclear agency said Friday it is “increasingly concerned” about a stream of intelligence suggesting that Iran continues to work secretly on developing a nuclear payload for a missile and other components of a nuclear weapons program.
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AP IMPACT: First 24 hours shaped Japan nuke crisis (AP)
AP – When Unit 2 began to shake, Hiroyuki Kohno’s first hunch was that something was wrong with the turbines. He paused for a moment, then went back to logging the day’s radioactivity readings.
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AP IMPACT: NRC and industry rewrite nuke history (AP)
AP – When commercial nuclear power was getting its start in the 1960s and 1970s, industry and regulators stated unequivocally that reactors were designed only to operate for 40 years. Now they tell another story — insisting that the units were built with no inherent life span, and can run for up to a century, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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AP IMPACT: Populations around US nuke plants soar (AP)
AP – As America’s nuclear power plants have aged, the once-rural areas around them have become far more crowded and much more difficult to evacuate. Yet government and industry have paid little heed, even as plants are running at higher power and posing more danger in the event of an accident, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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