Nuclear plant leak had gone unnoticed
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- Radioactive material leaked undetected for days at an earthquake-battered nuclear power plant even as the utility was assuring the public that the damage posed no danger to those outside the site, company executives acknowledged yesterday.
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Japanese authorities look into a possible second radioactive leak at nuclear plant following an earthquake.
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TSURUGA, Fukui Pref. (Kyodo) A Kansai Electric Power Co. nuclear power plant was searched Friday by the Fukui Prefectural Police for evidence of professional negligence resulting in death in connection with an accident last month.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 19 -- A contract employee at a nuclear materials cleanup site in Tennessee pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he stole classified information about enriching uranium to sell to foreign governments.
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Stunned by the revelation that a British scientist was passing American nuclear secrets to the Soviets immediately after World War II, diplomats feared the scandal could result in Britain's exclusion from U.S. atomic weapons programs, documents released Friday revealed.
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Industry officials hope renewed worldwide interest in nuclear energy will break a long, awkward silence surrounding nuclear waste
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TOKYO The operators of a Japanese nuclear plant say there was no evidence of danger at the plant before a deadly explosion this month.
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Instructions on how to build a nuclear reactor are revealed from sealed envelopes that have lain hidden for almost 70 years.
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Equipment which could be used in an illicit nuclear bomb programme has disappeared from previously monitored sites in Iraq, and radioactively contaminated items from there have been found abroad, the International Atomic Energy Agency has told the UN.
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A Syrian site that Israel bombed last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.
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A plan to stockpile pills to protect against one of the contaminants that would spread the farthest in a nuclear power plant leak appears to have slipped through the cracks.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- A strong earthquake shook Japan's northwest coast yesterday, setting off a fire at the world's most powerful nuclear power plant and causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea -- an accident not reported to the public for hours.
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The world's biggest nuclear power plant may be shut for more than a year for safety checks after an earthquake in Japan caused radiation leaks, prompting speculation of power shortages and prompting a run on the firm's shares.
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Emergency comes a week after earthquake caused radioactive spill at separate facility.
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Kerry Beal was taken aback when he discovered last March that many of his fellow security guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania were taking regular naps in what they called "the ready room."
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- An earthquake-racked nuclear power plant was ordered closed indefinitely yesterday amid growing anger over revelations that damage was much worse than initially announced and mounting international concern about Japan's nuclear stewardship.
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Japan said on Wednesday it found   radioactive matter from water samples taken around a U.S.   nuclear-powered submarine off its eastern coast, but the amount   was small and posed no harm to humans or the environment.