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Evacuees Slam Japan Nuclear Plant Operator
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO - Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant gathered in protest at the Tokyo headquarters of the plant's operator Wednesday, demanding compensation as the company's president pledged to do more to help those affected by the crisis. "I can't work and that means I have no money," said Shigeaki Konno, 73, an auto repair mechanic, who lived seven miles from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant before he was evacuated along with tens of thousands of others due to radiation fears. "The talk about compensation is not concrete. We need it ...
US Workers Join International Team Tackling Japan's Nuclear Crisis
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsWho's willing to kiss their family goodbye and fly halfway around the world into a radioactive cauldron, toiling at 12-hour shifts in potentially life-threatening conditions and surviving on emergency rations, all in the hopes of saving Japan from nuclear disaster? More people than you might think. Nuclear workers from the United States, France and other countries are heading to Japan to take part in the frantic operation to stop more radiation from spewing out of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Three weeks after a 9.0-magnitude quake destabilized the plant and sent a tsunami rushing ...
EPA Reports Traces of Radiation Reach Alabama [VIDEO]
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Japan: Not Enough Safeguards to Protect Nuclear Plant
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO -- Japan's government admitted that its safeguards were insufficient to protect a nuclear plant against the earthquake and tsunami that crippled the facility and caused it to spew radiation, and vowed to overhaul safety standards. The struggle to contain radiation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex has unfolded with near-constant missteps - the latest involving three workers drenched with water feared to be contaminated. Safety officials said Wednesday that the three were fine and did not register high radiation levels, but the incident fed criticism of the utility that owns the plant as ...
Amid Safety Reviews, Nuclear Future in Question [VIDEO]
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Japan Nuclear Plants Get Power, Massive Cleanup [VIDEO]
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Despite Protests, NRC Renews License for Vermont Nuclear Plant
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsDespite opposition by key state officials and worldwide fears over safety risks in the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted a new 20-year operating license for the Vermont Yankee atomic power plant. Monday's approval, which capped a five-year review process, allows the plant to run from 2012 to 2032. But whether the plant will be open for another two decades remains to be seen. Vermont is the only state with authority to keep a plant from operating. When it bought the plant in 2002, Entergy agreed to obtain a certificate of public good from ...
Source: Minuscule Fallout From Japan Reaches California
By not in system - AOL NewsVIENNA -- Radioactive fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear plant has reached Southern California, but the first readings are far below levels that could pose a health hazard, a diplomat said Friday. The diplomat, who has access to radiation tracking by the U.N.'s Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, cited readings from a California-based measuring station of the group. Initial readings are "about a billion times beneath levels that would be health threatening," the diplomat told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the CTBTO does not make its findings ...
Japan's Own Erin Brockovich Laments: 'I Wish I Could Have Done More'
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsHitomi Kamanaka remembers the reaction she got six months ago when she confronted a top official in the city of Fukushima with her fears about the local nuclear power plant. "I told him the reactors were too old, that they were dangerous, and he didn't say a word," said Kamanaka, 52, a filmmaker who has been on a 13-year crusade to educate Japan about the potential hazards of the country's 54 nuclear reactors. "He was silent. He couldn't answer. And I know why. I know the tremendous pressure he was under and how powerless he was." One of Kamanaka's worries that day in Fukushima concerned the ...
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