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Japan: Fukushima 'much worse' than reported
2013-08-22 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water leaks at Fukushima are much worse than the authorities have stated. Mycle Schneider is an independent consultant who has previously advised the French and German governments. He says water is leaking out all over the site and there are no accurate figures for radiation levels. Meanwhile the chairman of Japan's nuclear authority said that he feared there would be further leaks. The ongoing problems at the Fukushima plant...
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India overtakes Japan as world's third-largest Internet population
2013-08-22 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
86% of Indian Internet users access social networking sites; close to 60 million use Facebook.
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Japan: Fukushima: the global fallout
2013-08-22 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The long, dark shadow cast by the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station grew longer and darker on Wednesday as the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, admitted that 3,000 tonnes of highly toxic water had leaked from purpose-built storage tanks. The disaster, caused when the tsunami that followed the devastating earthquake in 2011 knocked out backup generators pumping water to cool the fuel rods, has cost more than $200bn (128bn) and is now expected to cost...
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Japan: New Fukushima Radioactive Leak Worst Since Original Accident
2013-08-21 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Japan`s Nuclear Regulation Authority now says a leak of radioactive water from a tank at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant Monday is a "serious incident" not just an "anomaly" as it was originally classified on an international scale. On Monday morning, an employee of the plant`s owner/operator Tokyo Electric Power Company on patrol found water leaking from a drain valve of a tank dike on a hillside near reactor No 4 at the power station, which has been shut down and is being decommissioned....
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Japan to Raise Fukushima Status to Level 3 'Serious Incident'
2013-08-21 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The situation at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear campus has been escalated to a level-three "serious incident," Japan said Wednesday. The news comes In light of the revelation that a storage tank has leaked 300 metric tons of water so contaminated a person standing nearby would get five times the annual limit of radiation allowed for nuclear workers in just one hour. The nuclear plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has struggled to keep myriad problems at the beleaguered nuclear...
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