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Fukushima disaster: 14 years into Japan’s battle to remove 880 tons of nuclear debris
Fourteen years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, the site has made tangible progress in lowering radiation levels. Yet, as the Associated ...
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Images taken deep inside melted Fukushima reactor show damage, but leave many questions unanswered
TOKYO (AP) — Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant ... an area directly under the reactor's core. Officials had long hoped ...
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IAEA confirms safety of latest Fukushima water release
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have confirmed that the tritium concentration in the 11th batch of diluted ...
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Conditions inside Fukushima melted nuclear reactors still unclear 13 years after disaster struck
Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power ... destroyed many homes and roads but didn’t damage an idled nuclear power plant.
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'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup work involves high radiation and stress
The damaged Unit 1 reactor, back, and the exhaust stack shared by the Unit 1 and 2 reactors are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...
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11 years later, fate of Fukushima reactor cleanup uncertain
OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Eleven years after the ... removed in the Three Mile Island cleanup following its 1979 partial core melt. The government has set a decommissioning roadmap aiming ...
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Learning from Fukushima Daiichi: Factors Leading to the Accident
The Fukushima Daiichi accident exposed certain weaknesses in ... It must be said, Caruso concluded, that in spite of the core damage that led to the release of radioactive material into the ...
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Food from Fukushima: Overcoming reputational damage in Taiwan
especially when it comes to reputational damage. While Fukushima fish farms have started to see a slight uptick in domestic sales, foreign markets present a different challenge. With nearly 90 ...
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Severe Accident Mitigation through Improvements in Filtered Containment Vent Systems and Containment Cooling Strategies for Water Cooled Reactors
One of the most important lessons from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is that ... Containment venting can enhance the capability to maintain core cooling and containment ...