Japanese nuclear plant 'may sit on fault line'
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The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant - the world's biggest in the world in terms of output capacity - has been shut down indefinitely after it shook violently in the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Japan this week.
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North Korea has said it may slow down work to disable its nuclear plants because of what it called a delay in promised energy aid, Japanese media reported Thursday.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has concluded that it is unlikely significant amounts of radiation would be released in a deliberate crash of a jetliner into a nuclear power plant, but that engineering tests have not entirely ruled out the possibility of radioactive releases.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- A strong earthquake shook Japan's northwest coast Monday, 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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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, July 17 -- Officials said Tuesday that the previous day's powerful earthquake tipped over barrels of nuclear waste at a power plant, and they were investigating whether there were any radioactive leaks.
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TOKYO - NEC Electronics Inc. restarted production at its Yamagata, Japan, factory on Monday evening after a series of strong earthquakes over the weekend halted manufacturing. However, two factories near the epicenter of the quakes remain off-line and the companies that operate them have no estimate for when they will be back online.
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Japan's top government spokesman says Tokyo is stepping up monitoring of North Korea amid speculation that the communist nation could carry out a nuclear test as early as this weekend.
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A bankrupt Japanese coal town may provide a glimpse  of a grim future to a country riddled with debt and an aging, shrinking population
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A shortfall in UK electricity generation is likely even after the recent decision on nuclear power, a report concludes.
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There was no significant damage to a nuclear plant in northern Japan shuttered since last summer after it was hit by a strong earthquake, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Friday.
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A Japanese nuclear power plant -- the world's biggest -- may be shut down for more than a year while a safety study is made after an earthquake caused radiation leaks and showed that the plant was built above an active fault.
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Two strong earthquakes that struck western Japan are unlikely to be precursors to the type of massive tremors that hit the region every century or so and the chances of major aftershocks seem low, a government panel said on Monday.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 20--NAGOYA -- Police on Tuesday searched Kansai Electric Co.'s  nuclear power business division in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, on suspicion of  negligence over a fatal nonradioactive accident at a nuclear reactor facility  in the town in 2004.
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The company running the Japanese nuclear plant hit by a fatal accident is to close its reactors for safety checks.
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A warning center such as those used  around the Pacific could have saved most of the thousands of  people who died in Asia's earthquake and tsunamis, a U.S.  Geological Survey official said on Sunday.
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Nuclear leaks after Japan's July 16 earthquake awaken insecurities
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Japanese police have searched a nuclear plant owned by Kansai Electric Power for evidence of any negligence that may have led to a deadly accident there last month.