September 10, 2011
An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan is [...]
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September 1, 2011
Residents look at a map of the planned nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan Province’s Thuan Nam District. After scientists detected new faults near the site, experts have urged that the plans be deferred. Two fault lines hitherto uncovered have provoked myriad calls for Vietnam’s nuclear power plans to be deferred on safety considerations. Serious [...]
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June 28, 2011
A man paddles his wooden boat nearby the Bataan Nuclear Power plant in Morong town. In a fresh but ambiguous take on ecotourism, travelers in the Philippines can visit a remote turtle sanctuary and then venture into the heart of a nearby nuclear power plant. If tourists feel too weary to make the three-hour bus [...]
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June 6, 2011
Vietnam needs some 3,000-5,000 field-trained experts by 2020. The country is scheduled to build 14 nuclear power plants, each of which needs at least 300 field-trained engineers. Vietnam hopes to resolve its power shortages by developing a series of nuclear plants. Since the Fukushima debacle, a number of safety concerns have arisen. But Dr. Tran [...]
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May 3, 2011
An official checks a visitor at a radiation screening center in Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture. Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis. The massive March [...]
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April 11, 2011
A family prays as they remember disaster victims nearby the site of their home which was destroyed in the recent tsunami. Japan fell silent at 2:46 pm Monday as people across the country remembered the thousands killed by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11 and the monster tsunami it created. In the devastated city [...]
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April 7, 2011
Various kinds of fish are displayed at a fish shop in Tokyo on April 5, 2011. Japan started dumping 11,500 tons of low-level radioactive water at sea to free up storage space at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant for more highly contaminated water. An accidental leak of highly radioactive water into the ocean from a [...]
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April 4, 2011
This handout picture taken on April 1, 2011 shows workers spraying resin on the ground near the reactor buildings to protect the spread of radioactive substances at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (AFP PHOTO / HO / TEPCO VIA JIJI PRESS) Emergency crew at Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear plant used a color dye Monday to [...]
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April 3, 2011
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) bows as he speaks to tsunami victim Ryoko Otsubo during his visit to an evacuees shelter in Rikuzentakata, after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami April 2, 2011 Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered [...]
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April 2, 2011
Screengrab taken from a Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces video shows Tokyo Electric Power Co's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. The radioactive plume from Japan’s quake hit Fukushima power plant has possibly spread all over Vietnam’s territory, but the levels are low enough not to cause any risk to human health, local officials said Thursday. Â [...]
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