
U.S. nuclear reactors remain vulnerable to attack, theft, sabotage
Austin, Texas (UPI) Aug 28, 2013 - U.S. commercial and research nuclear facilities are vulnerable to theft of bomb-grade nuclear materials, sabotage or major attack, a study found.
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Austin, Texas (UPI) Aug 28, 2013 - U.S. commercial and research nuclear facilities are vulnerable to theft of bomb-grade nuclear materials, sabotage or major attack, a study found.
Aug 28, 2013

Tokyo (AFP) Aug 28, 2013 - The world's nuclear watchdog has urged Japan to explain more clearly what is happening at Fukushima and avoid sending confusing messages about the disaster, the country's atomic regulator revealed Wednesday.
Aug 28, 2013

Washington, District Of Columbia (AFP) Aug 27, 2013 - A 40-year-old nuclear plant in Vermont will shut down next year due to the high costs of competing with cheap natural gas, the company said Tuesday.
Aug 27, 2013

Kiev (AFP) Aug 26, 2013 - Ukraine and Japan on Monday agreed to launch a joint satellite project to track the state of crippled Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plants, sites of the world's greatest nuclear disasters.
Aug 26, 2013

Tokyo (AFP) Aug 26, 2013 - TEPCO's handling of radioactive water at Fukushima has been like whack-a-mole, a minister said Monday after visiting the battered plant, pledging Japan's government would step up its involvement at the site.
Aug 26, 2013

Chernobyl, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 25, 2013 - Japan's foreign minister travelled Sunday to Chernobyl in Ukraine, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, to compare notes on relief efforts following Japan's own disaster at Fukushima, officials said.
Aug 25, 2013

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Aug 24, 2013

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Aug 23, 2013

Tokyo (AFP) Aug 23, 2013 - The prime minister of energy-poor Japan heads to the oil-rich Middle East this weekend in his latest push to promote nuclear technology exports, a spokesman said Friday, despite growing problems at the crippled Fukushima plant.
Aug 23, 2013

Tokyo (AFP) Aug 23, 2013 - Japan's nuclear watchdog on Friday dispatched an inspection team to the crippled Fukushima plant after workers found a huge toxic water leak and unexplained radiation hotspots.
Aug 23, 2013

Tokyo (AFP) Aug 22, 2013 - The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday it had found new radiation hotspots near tanks storing radioactive water, but no new leaks.
Aug 22, 2013

Tokyo (AFP) Aug 22, 2013 - Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday scrambled to check hundreds of tanks storing highly radioactive water, after one sprang a leak that is feared to have seeped into the Pacific.
Aug 22, 2013

Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Aug 21, 2013 - Japan declared a radioactive water leak at the crippled Fukushima plant a level-three serious incident Wednesday, its highest warning in two years, as operators scrambled to seal a tank that has seeped 300 tonnes of toxic water.
Aug 21, 2013

Seoul (AFP) Aug 21, 2013 - A reactor at one of South Korea's largest nuclear plants shut down Wednesday, officials said, at a time of creeping public anxiety over safety in the country's nuclear industry.
Aug 21, 2013

Tokyo (AFP) Aug 20, 2013 - Some 300 tonnes of radioactive water is believed to have leaked from a tank at Japan's crippled nuclear plant, the worst such leak since the crisis began, the operator said Tuesday.
Aug 20, 2013

Tokyo (UPI) Aug 20, 2013 - Highly radioactive water has leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is the worst since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, says Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator.
Aug 20, 2013