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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Lapses at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant worry public by Tabuchi and Wald


Lapses at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant worry public
Pioneer Press
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew Wald Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees wearing protective suits look at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan on Saturday. (Tomohiro Ohsumi, Bloomberg) TOKYO — What passes for normal at ...
 

Fukushima No. 4 building shown to press

The Daily Yomiuri -
FUKUSHIMA--Tokyo Electric Power Co. opened the inside of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 4 reactor building to the press on Saturday, more than a year after it was ripped apart by a hydrogen explosion four days after the Great East Japan ...

N-fuel pool, ruined structure seen up close

The Daily Yomiuri -
FUKUSHIMA--Goshi Hosono, the nuclear disaster management minister, spent half an hour Saturday inside the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 4 reactor building, which was hit by a hydrogen explosion four days after the Great East Japan ...

Safety fears grow at Japan nuclear plant

Financial Times -
By Jonathan Soble in Fukushima Japan breathed a collective sigh of relief when the government declared that the worst of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was over – the stricken plant having reached a more-or-less stable state known as “cold ...

Radioactive waste at Fukushima threatens second nuclear catastrophe

Brisbane Times -
Inspection ... the Nuclear Minister, Goshi Hosono, at Fukushima. Photo: AP TOKYO: What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami ...

Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 4 Spent-Fuel Pool Up Close

Wall Street Journal (blog) -
By Phred Dvorak The interior of the No. 4 reactor building is seen at the Tokyo Electric Power Co's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture May 26. On Saturday, Tepco let a bunch of journalists, as well as Goshi ...
 
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