MARCH 25, 2011 By STEPHEN POWER The nuclear crisis in Japan is reviving a battle over what should be done with the spent nuclear fuel that has been piling up around the U.S. for decades. Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant in Hanford, Wash. Under a 2002 law, Nevada’s Yucca Mountain is the designated […]
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Dangerous breach suspected at Japanese nuke plant Published March 24, 2011 | Associated Press A suspected breach in the reactor core at one unit of a stricken Fukushima nuclear plant could mean more serious radioactive contamination, Japanese officials said Friday, revealing what may prove a major setback in the mission to bring the leaking plant
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NEWS&OBSERVER Last word in nuclear safety: Yucca BY RICK MARTINEZ – Correspondent March 24, 2011 It’s becoming increasingly clear that the biggest threat of uncontained radiation from Japan’s earthquake-induced nuclear-plant disaster lies in the spent fuel rods stored on site, not the active power plant cores. I don’t know if the prime minister can order
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MARCH 19, 2011 Into the time machine to see how a major company coped with its black swans By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. The following memo was unearthed as part of the litigation, now entering its 50th year, over the Great Japan Nuclear Incident of 2011. Addressed to General Electric’s then-CEO Jeff Immelt, the memo
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MARCH 15, 2011, 11:55 A.M. ET Damage Spreads to Fourth Reactor; Prime Minister Warns of Radiation Release, Tells Residents in 18-Mile Zone to Stay Indoors By YUKA HAYASHI And PHRED DVORAK Confusion and panic levels are rising across Japan following another blast and fire in Fukushima. WSJ’s Mariko Sanchanta and Yumiko Ono separate fact from
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MARCH 14, 2011, 10:37 P.M. ET Kan Warns of High Radiation Level By WILLIAM SPOSATO TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday that there is a high risk of elevated levels of radiation from a reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant where an explosion occurred earlier in the day, and urged people within 30
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March 14, 2011 Nancy Morgan For the first time in my life, I’m embarrassed to be an American. Last weekend, as tens of thousands of Japanese were fighting for their lives after an 8.9 earthquake devastated their nation, our President, after giving a generic “We’re with you” statement, remained noticeably absent. Not really absent —
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MARCH 14, 2011, 9:20 A.M. ET By PHRED DVORAK And ATSUKO FUKASE in TokyoAnd ERIC BELLMAN in Sendai Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesJapanese sailors rescue Hiromitsu Shinkawa Sunday, two days after the 60-year-old was washed to sea on the roof of his Minamisoma home by a tsunami caused by a powerful earthquake. Thousands are feared dead. Japan’s
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