The country suffered its own collossal nuclear meltdown with Chernobyl in April of 1986.
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Unlike earthquakes and tsunamis that have measurable, if enormous, damage, the implications of a nuclear meltdown are less clear.
Sea water is being pumped into the reactors by special high pressure fire extinguisher hoses to prevent a nuclear meltdown.
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The number of workers grappling with an increasingly likely nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has been cut from 800 to 50.
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As we write this essay, longer-term U.S. Treasures are getting a bit of a safety bid on the economic impact of a possible nuclear meltdown in Japan.
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April 26, 1999: the thirteenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster - and the day when PCs all over Asia did their own impersonation of a nuclear meltdown.
Last month, Noda issued a sobering and reflective assessment of his country's recovery a year after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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Toyota Motors, which had suffered setbacks over the past few years due to the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan, posted even stronger growth, with sales up 26.6%.
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Toyota Motor, which appears to have solidly left behind the supply constraints caused by a tsunami and subsequent partial nuclear meltdown in Japan two years ago, saw sales climb 4.3% to 166, 377 units.
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Japan's stocks lost 17% in 2011 in the wake of March's devastating tsunami, which saw 20, 000 lives lost and affected manufacturing of some of the world's most vital component suppliers, not to mention severe damage to the country's energy sector, including a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
For most investors the Japan story is the definition of ugly: a devastating tsunami followed by a nuclear reactor meltdown.
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Ask anyone about BP and Electricite de France SA and the image of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown come to mind.
He came to power in September as the Pacific power continued struggling with the effects of last year's earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 16, 000 people and triggered a nuclear power plant meltdown.
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Russian nuclear disaster experts from Rosenergoatom and the Nuclear Safety Institute who gained their experience from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown in 1986 Ukraine will also be going to Japan, Ria Novosti reported.
All 50 of Japan's nuclear plants were shut after the meltdown at Fukushima, which was triggered by a tsunami and earthquake in March 2011.
Toyota had to face the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan two years ago, disrupting its global supply chain and causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Toyota had a difficult couple of years given the disruption in its global supply chain caused by the earthquake-cum-tsunami that battered Japan in 2011, causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Officials said they could not rule out the possibility of a meltdown, which occurs when nuclear fuel rods cannot be cooled and melt the steel and concrete structure containing them, at all three troubled reactors at the plant.
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The triple blow of last year's earthquake, tsunami and reactor meltdown at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear plant added to the country's gloomy economic outlook.
What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles?
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Experts at Ux Consulting (UxC), which produces what has become the industry standard price index for uranium, noted that while underlying fundamentals remain strong, financial speculation and the possible dumping of supplies into the market could keep prices for the yellow metal suppressed in the short to medium run. (Read Uranium and Nuclear Stocks Feel The Shock Waves Of Fukishima Meltdown).
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The end result was that the unit suffered a partial core meltdown, and the public lost trust in the nuclear industry as a whole.
Large sun-grazing comets could bring on the sort of global electronics meltdown usually associated with electromagnetic pulse weapons or a full-scale nuclear exchange.
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Following the 1979 near-meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, the nuclear power industry suddenly had all the appeal of Dr. Strangelove in his doomsday bunker.
Following the 1979 near meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, the nuclear power industry suddenly had all the appeal of Dr. Strangelove in his doomsday bunker.
Earlier in the day Hitoshi had driven north to the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, where the reactors are feared to be leaking radiation and at risk of an outright meltdown.
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