Posts Tagged ‘nuke’

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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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)

In this Aug. 26, 2011 photo, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan pauses during a press conference in Tokyo, announcing his resignation to the nation. 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 in an interview with the Tokyo Shimbun daily published Tuesday, Sept. 6. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)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)

FILE - In this Sept. 2007 file picture an anti-aircraft gun position is seen at Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran. The U.N. nuclear agency said Wednesday Sept. 2, 2011  it is 'increasingly concerned' about a stream of intelligence information suggesting that Iran continues to work secretly on developing a nuclear payload for a missile and other components of a nuclear weapons program. In its report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said 'many member states' are providing evidence for that assessment, describing the information it is receiving as credible, 'extensive and comprehensive.'  The report was made available Friday to The Associated Press, shortly after being shared internally with the 35 IAEA member nations and the U.N. Security Council.   (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)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)

FILE - In this March 11, 2011 photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., tsunami waves approach tanks of heavy oil for the Unit 5 reactor of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The towering waves unleashed by the magnitude-9.0 earthquake on March 11 destroyed backup generators for several reactors' cooling systems, and the nuclear cores in three reactors melted. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co., File)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)

FILE - This July 12, 1972 file picture shows the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, N.J. Called 'Oyster Creak' by some critics because of its aging problems, this boiling water reactor began running in 1969 and ranks as the country's oldest operating commercial nuclear power plant. Its license was extended in 2009 until 2029, though utility officials announced in December 2010 that they'll shut the reactor 10 years earlier, rather than build state-ordered cooling towers. (AP Photo)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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