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Japanese power plant is safe in super typhoon
The powerful Roke storm yesterday swept across the Fukushima I power plant shortly after a seismic hit, but the nuclear facility was not seriously damaged.
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20 people died of typhoons in Japan
At least 20 people were killed and 50 people were missing in Japan after Typhoon Talas hit the western and central parts of the country.
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Japan established a restricted area around the Fukushima I factory
The area around Japan's Fukushima I nuclear power plant may become a forbidden area for several decades because the concentration of radiation there has reached a very d…
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Radiation from Japanese factories is 168 times the atomic bomb
A newspaper in Japan said that radioactive cesium-137 leaked from Fukushima I nuclear power plant equivalent to more than 168 atomic bombs falling on Hiroshima city duri…
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Investigation of the mechanism of the earthquake in Japan
Japanese and international scientists will conduct exploration, studying the mechanism of the March 11 earthquake in the country that has killed tens of thousands of peo…
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Radiation from the Fukushima 1 plant has spread to the United States
On August 16, Kyodo news agency said US scientists have discovered a small amount of radioactive sulfur dispersed from Japan's No. 1 Fukushima nuclear power plant on the…
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Japan restarted nuclear power after the tsunami
Japan yesterday approved the first nuclear reactor to resume operations after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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Earthquake triggers tsunami warning in Japan
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has just happened on the northeast coast of Japan, right in the double disaster area in March, causing a tsunami warning to be made.
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Half of Fukushima children are radioactive
Nearly a quarter of the medical samples of children living in areas of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima nuclear power plant (Japan) give positive results for…
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The tremors from the Japanese earthquake reach close to the universe
The record seismic in March in Japan was so strong that its shockwave nearly exceeded the atmosphere.
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Afraid of earthquakes, Japan wants to build a reserve capital
The Japanese government will consider building a backup city for Tokyo to deal with terrorist attacks or major natural disasters.
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Japanese tsunami broke the Antarctic ice
The tsunami on March 11 in Japan was so powerful that it broke many large blocks of ice in Antarctica, a few thousand kilometers from Japan.
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Japan has just developed a new radioactive material
New materials in the form of silicon dioxide compounds (SiO2) can absorb radioactive iodine and strontium by changing the compound type.
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Strong earthquake shook Fukushima, Japan
A strong earthquake of 6.4 Richter occurred in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan this morning, but did not pose a tsunami risk.