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New York is dark after super typhoon Sandy
Suddenly separated from the outside world, America's most populous city experienced another life after super typhoon Sandy: no subway, no horizon of lights and no food s…
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Detection of ultra-high levels of radiation at Fukushima 1
On October 10, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced measurements at the No.1 reactor of the Fukushima 1 Power Plant, whereby the radioactive concentration meas…
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Japan produces electricity from renewable energy
On August 31, Japan's Environment Minister Goshi Hosono announced a new energy strategy to increase electricity output by six times for four renewable energy types by 20…
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France: Incident at Fessenheim nuclear power plant
On the afternoon of September 5, an incident occurred at the Fessenheim nuclear power plant, in the Haut-Rhin region of France that caused two people to suffer minor bur…
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First move nuclear fuel in Fukushima
Japanese media on July 18 reported that workers working at the Daiichi incident nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture for the first time have moved nuclear fuel here sin…
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Russia is committed to building a safe nuclear power plant
According to a reporter in Moscow, on June 5, interviewed by a reporter in the framework of the 2012 AtomExpo Forum, Deputy General Director of the Russian Atomic Energy…
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Japan can restart the Ohi nuclear reactor
According to AFP and Voice of Russia, for the first time since the incident at the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant in March 2011, reactors of nuclear power plants in Jap…
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Fukushima workers died not because of radiation
The UN representative said the cause of death of six workers who worked at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan and died after the earthquake disaster - the tsunam…
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Radiation in Japan is no longer dangerous
One year after the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the amount of radiation in Japan has fallen below the level of cancer, most of Japan is no longer in da…
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Japan's last nuclear reactor stopped working
Since the earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March last year, only one reactor on the northern island of Hokkaido of Japan's…
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Improving the quality of propaganda for nuclear power development
On April 19 in Hanoi, the Department of Atomic Energy (Ministry of Science and Technology) held a meeting to consult the ministries and agencies concerned to finalize th…
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Radioactive leaks at nuclear power plants in France
On April 5, two small fires caused radioactive leaks at France's Penly power plant, on the English Channel near Dieppe harbor, but the leaked radiation was collected bac…
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KEPCO issues safety timetables for power plants
Director of Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) Makoto Yagi on April 9 submitted to the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan Yukio Edano the medium and lon…
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Super tsunami scenario in Japan
A 9-magnitude Richter earthquake originating from the trench Nankai, running along the eastern island of Honshu to the southern island of Kyushu, can create a giant wave…
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Vietnam prioritizes nuclear safety
Nuclear safety is a top priority in the process of developing and applying peaceful nuclear energy, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam confir…