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Japan’s Radioactive Water Will Go Into the Ocean or Atmosphere
Bad Ideas Officials overseeing the crumbled remains of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant have a growing problem: they're running out of space to store its radioactive water. In September,...
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Fukushima Plans to Power Region With 100% Renewable Energy
In 2011, the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima experienced one of the worst meltdowns in history — a disaster the area is still reckoning with today. But the Japanese prefecture of almost two...
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Japan Battles Wild Monkeys at Site of Nuclear Meltdown
Nature Is Healing Nine years after Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor melted down, nature and wildlife have reclaimed the area. In particular, NPR reports, macaque monkeys, wild boars, and other...
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Japan Plans to Dump Fukushima's Radioactive Water Into the Sea
Out Of Options The Japanese government confirmed today that it will eventually dump the radioactive water stored at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant back into the sea. The Friday...
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Japan Is Bringing One of Its Tsunami-Damaged Nuclear Reactors Back Online
Comeback Japanese officials have granted full approval to restart one of the several nuclear power plants in the country that were damaged by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami. After the devastating storm...
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Another Earthquake Nails the Crumbling Fukushima Power Plant
Not Again A powerful earthquake struck the site of Japan's already-crumbling Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last weekend, further damaging the facility that experts and authorities have spent...
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Japanese Mayor's House Firebombed to Protest Nuclear Power
Public Feedback In October of last year, a resident of the Japanese town of Suttsu threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of mayor Haruo Kataoka's house. The mayor's crime? Tentatively...
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Japan Says Sorry, But It Has to Dump This Radioactive Water Into the Ocean
Moving Ahead Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says that the government has put off figuring out what to do with all of the contaminated water building up at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi...
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Japanese Prime Minister Challenged to Drink Radioactive Water Before Dumping...
Shots Shots Shots Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that the government could no longer delay its plan to dump radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
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United States Supports Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean
Choosing Teams Despite outcry from neighboring countries like China and Korea, Japan has found a supporter for its plan to dump radioactive water into the ocean in the United States. Earlier this...
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Dumping Radioactive Water Into Sea Won't Solve Japan's Issues
Containment Issues Japan’s upcoming plans to dump more than 1.2 million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the ocean will probably not solve their water storage...
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Fukushima Now Home to Radioactive Boar-Pig Hybrids
It's been just over a decade since a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused the meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Japan's Fukushima region. The ensuing evacuation has allowed...
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Japan Is Digging an Undersea Tunnel To Dump Fukushima's Radioactive Water
30-Year Flush In order to safely dispose of the radioactive water building up and threatening to overflow at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company...
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Scientists Monitoring Radioactive Snakes Near Fukushima Meltdown Site
Curving Snakes Nine years after the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, scientists are left wondering how dangerous the surrounding area still is. To investigate, a team of...
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Nuclear Disaster in Japan Did Something Strange to Trees
Going Nuclear They didn't grow any larger or suddenly become sentient, but the trees outside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant are definitely acting weird, according to a new study published...
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Photos From Deep Inside Fukushima Reactor Show Horrid Mounds of Radioactive...
Messy Meltdown A remote-controlled robot travelled to the bottom of Fukushima's most damaged reactor on Thursday and captured images of mounds of melted fuel that sank following the 2011 tsunami that...
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Japan Approves Play to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean
Flood Gates Japanese regulators just gave the Fukushima nuclear plant the green light to release around 1.4 million liters of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific ocean starting next year,...
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Japan May Need Nine Nuclear Reactors Turned On to Get Through Winter
In an effort to prevent power outages this winter, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked that as many as nine of the country's nuclear reactors be brought online. Earlier today Bloomberg reported...
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UN Approves Japan's Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean
Ocean Dump The United Nations has given Japan the green light to dump its troves of treated radioactive water from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean. As Reuters...
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Japan Dumping Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into Ocean This Week
Lefty Loosey Despite significant opposition from its neighboring countries, Japan is about to start releasing contaminated water from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster into the Pacific Ocean...
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