Asia
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Japan's Nuclear Volcano Erupts (Mike Whitney)
Apr. 12, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Shares plunged across Europe and Asia Tuesday as the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant deepened and Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ...
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Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk (Jeff McMahon)
Apr. 11, 2011 (Forbes) -- Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk --in Montpelier, Vermont -- for the ...
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'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan (Dahr Jamail)
Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is "too much." According to the US Department of Energy, no level of radiation is so low that it is without health risks Apr. 4, 2011 (Al Jazeera) ...
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Japan nuclear operator aims for cold shutdown in 6-9 months (Taiga Uranaka)
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) hopes it will be able to achieve cold shutdown of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant within six to ...
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Japan says it may take months to end radiation leaks (Chizu Nomiyama and Yoko Nishikawa)
4:02 p.m. EDT, Apr. 3, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan warned Sunday it could take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, ...
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BOOKS: Deadly Embrace -- Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. By Bruce Riedel (Jim Miles)
Deadly Embrace - Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institute Press, Washington, D.C. 2011. Mar. 28, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Given the nature of ...
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Soaring radioactivity deals blow to Japan's plant (Shinichi Saoshiro)
Mar. 27, 2011 -- 11:21 p.m. JST (10:21 EST) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were withdrawn from a reactor building at Japan's earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant Sunday after potentially lethal levels of ...
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5 Reasons Why Technology Can Never Be Neutral (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Mar. 27, 2011 -- It's repeated so often that few of us even stop to question its validity: "Technology is neutral. It's only as good or as bad as those using it." Here ...
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Japan Nuclear situation 'grave and serious' (Irish Times)
Japanese prime minister Naota Kan at a news conference Friday. Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Mar 25, 2011 (Irish Times) -- The situation at Japan's crippled nuclear complex in Fukushima 240km ...
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Fukushima Radiation: Some Difficult Truths (Ritt Goldstein)
Mar. 24, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- As radiation counts elevate in Japan, news of nuclear contamination spreading across a widening spectrum of life and its necessities, official pronouncements ...
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Radiation spikes in seawater by stricken Japan plant (Chizu Nomiyama and Shinichi Saoshiro)
Leslie's CHP Atomic Fish (Tablecloth) 8:00 p.m. JST (7 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) - Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan's nuclear safety ...
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