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The world's worst nuclear power disasters
2013-10-07 01:00:00| Power Technology
While much has been done to improve safety, disasters such as those at the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plants still loom large in the public psyche. Power-Technology profiles the world's worst nuclear power disasters.
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'Nuclear implications' of power loss
2013-10-06 19:04:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A loss of power for more than 90 minutes at Devonport Dockyard had potential nuclear implications, a Ministry of Defence report says.
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U.N. nuclear agency sends new Fukushima expert mission
2013-10-04 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.N. nuclear agency said on Friday it would send an international team of experts to Japan later this month to look into efforts to clean up affected areas around the crippled Fukushima atomic power plant. Japan's nuclear regulator earlier ordered the operator of Fukushima to draft in additional workers if needed to plug leaks of radioactive water from its tanks and report within a week on steps taken to fight the crisis. The warning was the second in as many months issued to Tokyo Electric...
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New criticism of operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant after latest leak
2013-10-04 10:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's nuclear regulator on Friday ordered the operator of the crippled Fukushima power plant to draft in additional workers if needed to plug leaks of radioactive water from its tanks and report within a week on steps taken to fight the crisis. The warning was the second in as many months issued to Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, after the company found a second escape of contaminated liquids that probably entered the Pacific Ocean. Recent mishaps have called into question Tepco's ability...
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Energy Department Report Faults Procedures at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site
2013-10-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Bechtel, which is building a $12.2 billion waste-treatment plant at the federal government's decommissioned Hanford nuclear weapons site in Washington state, has been buying critically important parts without subjecting them to the required quality assurance regime, according to a new report by the Energy Department's inspector general. The department's inspector general, Gregory H. Friedman, said a sample of 235 design documents over a three-year period showed that Bechtel had failed to run more...
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