At 6:14 a.m.(4:14p.m EST) another explosion occurred at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Monday, Japan time, another building at the Fukushima nuclear power plant housing the No. 3 exploded.
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So-called stress tests were carried out at European power plants following the Japanese earthquake which affected the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Besides, there are fears that a radiation leak from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will reach Tokyo, and warnings of another massive earthquake.
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Many people were staying indoors over fears that radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant 200 kilometers to the north are wafting over Tokyo.
The good news was that the wind was blowing from the northwest and sending the smoke from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant over the Pacific Ocean.
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He wants to stabilise the Fukushima nuclear power plant, around which levels of radiation are proving higher than expected, and may create large, semi-permanent no-go zones, just as at Chernobyl.
Having enough power for heat and light have become serious concerns in the Tokyo area in the midst of the emergency unfolding at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to the north.
Tokyo radiation levels are not hazardous to human health at this time following radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the International Atomic Energy Chief Yukiya Amano told reporters Wednesday.
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He said since Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant was badly damaged in an earthquake and tsunami in March, countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Italy were reducing their commitment to nuclear energy.
The town of Kawamata normally has a population of around 20, 000 residents, but more people are likely staying in Kawamata after a government-ordered evacuation from the area surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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The Japanese government now says that levels of radioactive contamination beyond the legal health limits have been found in tap water in a town nearly 30-miles (46-kilometers) northwest of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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Some of the Japanese reactors will not be restarted such as at the stricken No. 1 unit at the Fukushima nuclear power plant and others will begin operation only after months or years of investigation and retrofitting.
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Countries including the U.S., U.K and Korea have ordered the evacuation of their citizens in Japan within a 80-kilometer radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which has been leaking radiation since the massive earthquake on March 11.
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We also explored several pressing environmental issues as record levels of radiation were found in fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and we delved into the Gates of Hell -- a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan that has been ablaze for 41 years.
The four units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, were gravely damaged in the 9.0 March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that took the lives of more than 10, 000 people and has the northern part of Japan, and its neighbors China and Russia, on high alert for nuclear radiation leaks.
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The earthquake launched a tsunami, which killed thousands, and knocked out the nuclear power plant at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, setting off a series of explosions, fires and large radiation leaks at the facility.
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But the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was incapable of withstanding the earthquake and tsunami that hit on that day.
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The latest concern in the region is a radiation leak from the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.
Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
The Japanese government reported today that radiation levels are dangerously high inside Units 1 and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDI).
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"Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster, " it said.
The same is true of the boom in shale gas in America, the recession in Europe and the accident at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant in Japan.
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If the good news from the manufacturers is overshadowed by more problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, then the ProShares UltraShort MSCI Japan (NYSE: EWV) may climb higher.
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My story Sunday saying that the danger from radiation in Japan will remain small even if things at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant go horribly wrong generated a lot of response.
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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The bright yellow dome of the steel containment vessel at Unit 4, Fukushima Daiishi nuclear power plant (FDI) is clearly visible amid the pulverized remains of the building in a new video released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
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