Posts Tagged ‘Plant’

NRC: Heavy wear on new tubes at Cal nuke plant (AP)

AP – Federal regulators say unusual wear has been found on dozens of virtually new tubes that carry radioactive water at Southern California’s San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant.

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Small radiation amount ‘could have’ escaped plant (AP)

AP – Federal regulators say a tiny amount of radiation could have escaped into the atmosphere from a Southern California nuclear power plant after a water leak prompted operators to shut down the reactor.

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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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Media allowed into Japan’s tsunami-hit nuke plant (AP)

A view of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool)AP – Media allowed into Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned trucks, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months ago.


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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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Dozens arrested in Boeing plant drug raid

Federal agents raided a Boeing plant that makes military helicopters in suburban Philadelphia on Thursday and charged more than three dozen people with distributing or trying to get prescription drugs, among them powerful painkillers.

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