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                    [Title] => Japan committed to nuclear power despite Fukushima fiasco
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With the pull of a lever, control rods were lifted yesterday from the reactor core at a plant in southern Japan, ending a ban on nuclear power following meltdowns at Fukushima in the northeast that forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes, most of them for good.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-11 16:18:56 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1302369 [AuthorName] => Elaine Kurtenbach and Mari Yamaguchi [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1251491 [Title] => Japan OKs fuel removal from pool at nuke plant [Summary] =>

Japanese regulators on yesterday gave final approval for removing fuel rods from an uncontained cooling pool at a damaged reactor building considered the highest risk at a crippled nuclear plant.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-31 02:48:07 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1115761 [Title] => Radioactive water leaks at Japanese nuclear plant [Summary] =>

The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant said yesterday that about 300 tons (300,000 liters, 80,000 gallons) of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks there — its worst leak yet from such a vessel.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-21 06:18:32 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488726 [AuthorName] => Mari Yamaguchi [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 964247 [Title] => Japan: Radioactive water likely leaking to Pacific [Summary] =>

Japan's nuclear regulator says radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima power plant is probably leaking into the Pacific Ocean, a problem long suspected by experts but denied by the plant's operator.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-11 09:26:13 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488726 [AuthorName] => Mari Yamaguchi [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 929467 [Title] => Water, rats, outages: Japan nuke plant precarious [Summary] =>

A rat causing a power outage by short-circuiting a temporary switchboard. Another blackout occurring as workers install anti-rat nets. Holes in the linings of huge underground tanks leaking radioactive water.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-11 09:56:39 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7199/daiichiplant.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 850705 [Title] => Japan launches new nuclear safety agency [Summary] =>

Japan has launched a new nuclear oversight agency following criticism that collusion between regulators and plant operators contributed to meltdowns at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-19 11:13:03 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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