Topic: nuclear power - on March 15, 2011 at 10:19:00 AM CET
Operator says asks military to put out Fukushima Daiichi No.4 unit fire
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 15, 2011 at 9:46:00 AM CET
French nuclear agency rates Japan accident 5 or 6
France's ASN nuclear safety authority said on Monday the nuclear accident in Japan could be classed as level 5 or 6 on the international scale of 1 to 7, on a par with the 1979 US Three Mile Island meltdown.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 15, 2011 at 8:34:00 AM CET
Libyan rebels urge west to assassinate Gaddafi as his forces near Benghazi
Libya's revolutionary leadership is pressing western powers to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi and launch military strikes against his forces to protect rebel-held cities from the threat of bloody assault.
Mustafa Gheriani, spokesman for the revolutionary national council in its stronghold of Benghazi, said the appeal was to be made by a delegation meeting the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in Paris on Monday, as G8 foreign ministers gathered there to consider whether to back French and British calls for a no-fly zone over Libya.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 15, 2011 at 8:30:00 AM CET
£10m bounty to nab Colonel Gaddafi — dead or alive
London: A whopping 10 million pounds bounty has been placed on the head of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi.
The reward is being offered by special agents to the Libyan who can deliver them Gaddafi -- dead or alive.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 15, 2011 at 8:28:00 AM CET
PM Kan urges those remaining near plants to leave
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has urged all residents to evacuate from within 20 kilometers of the disaster-stricken Fukushima No.1 nuclear power station. He told people living within 20 to 30 kilometers to stay indoors.
Kan issued a public appeal on Tuesday morning, saying 2 hydrogen explosions and a fire are raising the level of radioactivity released into the atmosphere. He said there's also an increased danger of more radioactive leaks.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 15, 2011 at 8:27:00 AM CET
Edano: radiation high enough to affect health
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano says the level of radiation around the quake-damaged Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant is high enough to affect human health.
Edano told reporters on Tuesday morning that 400 millisieverts of radiation per hour had been detected around the plant's No.3 reactor building at 10:22 AM.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 15, 2011 at 8:23:00 AM CET
Japan - Vast Devastation
The vast devastation wrought by the earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, may only be matched by the destroyed lives left in their wake. Few survivors have been found, but families continue to search for their sons, daughters, wives, husbands and friends. Threats of a nuclear reactor meltdown and resulting disaster loom. -- Paula Nelson (51 photos total)
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 15, 2011 at 7:57:00 AM CET
Geiger counter reading in Hino City, Tokyo
Tokyo Geiger Counter- Link [Tokyo counter]
Chiba Geiger Counter- Link
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 15, 2011 at 6:41:00 AM CET
Radioaktive Wolke treibt auf Tokio zu - 400fach über Grenzwert - ~400 millisieverts/hr
Neue Hiobsbotschaften aus Japan: Eine weitere Explosion und ein neuer Brand im Krisen-Atomkraftwerk Fukushima machen die Lage immer gefährlicher. Angesichts widersprüchlicher Aussagen ist unklar, ob der Reaktor 2 selbst leck ist. Doch die radioaktive Strahlung in der Umgebung steigt dramatisch. Die Regierung spricht bereits von einem „für die Gesundheit gefährlichen“ Ausmaß. Und auch in Tokio breitet sich die Angst aus: Weil der Wind drehte, treibt die radioaktive Wolke nun auf die Hauptstadt zu. Dort wurden bereits leicht erhöhte Strahlenwerte gemessen.
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