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Tepco Faces 132 Olympic Pools Worth of Radioactive Water

Tokyo Electric Power Co.  has accumulated the largest pool of radioactive water in the history of nuclear accidents. The utility must now decide what to do with it: dump in the ocean, evaporate into the air, or both. The more than 330,000 metric tons of water with varying levels of toxicity is stored in pits, basements and hundreds of tanks at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. The government said this we ...

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Nuclear Debate Must Look at Waste Legacies

Opinion piece by BEHNAM TAEBI ACROSS the world, the contentious debate over the future of nuclear power continues apace. In East Asia, for instance, it emerged earlier this month that a nuclear plant in Taiwan may have been leaking radioactive water for three years. Meanwhile, Japan is still struggling to contain radioactive water from Fukushima; and in South Korea prosecutors are conducting a huge investig ...

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UAE Still Keen on Nuclear

As Japan continues to struggle to contain radioactive water leaking out of its Fukushima nuclear plant following the 2011 meltdown, confidence in atomic energy across much of the world is at a low ebb. The UAE, however, is among the few countries bucking the trend as it advances its bid to become the first Arab nation to safely harness atomic energy for peaceful means on a commercial scale. The country is n ...

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North Asian Nations’ Confidence in Nuclear Wavers

Japan is struggling to contain radioactive water pouring out of the Fukushima nuclear plant that was wrecked by a 2011 tsunami. In South Korea, prosecutors are conducting a massive investigation into forged safety certificates and substandard parts at many of its reactors. Nuclear power has long been used as a reliable alternative to fossil fuels in natural resource-starved parts of Asia like Japan, Taiwan ...

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More Nuclear Disaster as Taiwan Plant Leaks Radioactive Water

An aging nuclear power plant in Taiwan has been leaking radioactive wastewater for three and half years, according to a report released by the government’s watchdog this week. The report by Control Yuan said spent fuel rod storage pools at the have leaked since December 2009. The pools of the two reactors leaked 15,370 milliliters and 4,830 milliliters respectively, it said. Radioactive materials such as Ca ...

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Japanese Government Will Help TEPCO Clean Up Radioactive Mess

Japanese Government officials declared that Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) will most likely receive support from state funds in order to deal with the worsening crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant 220 kilometers (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo. The radioactive water leaks at the nuclear plant that was critically hit by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011 reached the emergency level in the last few days. Ja ...

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TEPCO Discloses Extent of Nuclear Plant Leak

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has given its first public estimate of the size of the leakage of radioactive tritium into the Pacific Ocean since the disaster. Between 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of the substance is estimated to have leaked into the sea since May 2011, said Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO). It was the first such figure TEPCO has released since a massive ts ...

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Radioactive Water From Fukushima Likely Leaking to Pacific

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. Officials from the Nuclear Regulation Authority said a leak is "strongly suspected" and urged plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to determine where the water may be leaking from and assess the environ ...

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Scientists Push for Nuclear Power in Australia

A group of scientists and engineers has called on Australian political leaders to consider the introduction of nuclear power as an effective way of combating climate change. The call has come from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. The Academy’s concerns have been backed by a number of scientists and engineers from countries across Europe. Many of them argue that fears over po ...

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Australia’s Energy Minister Appeals for More Uranium Development

Australia's resources and energy minister has called on the country's uranium sector to increase development to meet growing global demand. "We need industry to commit to further development of new projects to ensure that our uranium production meets global demand, particularly as demand for uranium is likely to surpass current supply," Resources Minister Gary Gray said in a speech to the Australian Uranium ...

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