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Radioactive water floods Fukushima plant basements after wrong pumps switched on via The Asahi Shimbun

Tons of highly radioactive water have flooded basements at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after pumps that should not have been in use were mistakenly turned on. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced April 14 that … Continue reading

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Nuke crisis caused by Japan, not quake: Kan via The Japan Times

Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan has admitted that Japan was woefully unprepared for last year’s nuclear disaster and suggested that the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant should not have been built so close to a tsunami-prone coastline. […] Kan said … Continue reading

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