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 18, 2011
Volodymyr Palkin, 69, a former employee of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and now a patient in Kiev's radiological hospital displaying his picture taken at the plant some 25 years before. Every year, Volodymyr Palkin spends at least two months in a Kiev hospital. He was one of hundreds of thousands of rescue workers sent [...]
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April 18, 2011
A beach in the central town of Nha Trang. Officials say no radiation has been detected in Vietnam's seawater Vietnamese officials Wednesday said they were yet to detect radiation in local seawater and denied recent rumors about contamination of the seas that prompted many people rush to buy iodized salt for storage.  Vuong Huu Tan, chief [...]
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April 16, 2011
A seafood processing factory in Vietnam France and Italy have required seafood imported from Vietnam to be checked for radiation before it leaves the country, an industry group said Friday. To Tue Lang, chairwoman of the Seafood Exporters Association in the central province of Binh Thuan, said the requirement came as concerns rose over the [...]
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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 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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April 2, 2011
In a handout picture released by Greenpeace and taken on March 27, 2011 shows a Greenpeace team member holding a Geiger counter displaying radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour in Iitate city, Fukushima Pressure grew on Thursday for Japan to expand an evacuation zone round its stricken nuclear plant where radiation hit 4,000 [...]
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March 31, 2011
In a file picture taken on March 23, 2011 Norio Tsuzumi (C-standing), vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Company, and employees bow their heads to apologize to evacuees at a shelter in Fukushima prefecture Japan was Wednesday considering plans to drape shattered nuclear reactor buildings with special covers to limit radiation, and pump contaminated water [...]
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