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Why do El Nino and La Nina trigger weather chaos?
Reuters | 10 May 2012
(Reuters) - From record floods to crippling droughts and wildfires, a natural swing in Pacific Ocean temperatures can trigger climate chaos around the globe.

Climate Change | Disasters

Japan raises nuclear alert level to seven
Guardian Unlimited | 12 Apr 2011
Fukushima Daiichi power plant emergency is now on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl warning. Japan is to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven, putting the emergency on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Nuclear safety officials had insisted they had no plans to raise the severity of the crisis from five - the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 – according to the international nuclear and radiological event scale.

Japan | Disasters | Economy | Energy Production

Japan, in wake of nuclear crisis, orders summer energy cutbacks
Washington Post | 10 Apr 2011
The Japanese government ordered businesses and residents last week to cut their energy use by as much as 25 percent this summer to avoid power outages after the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a decision lawmakers acknowledged could have economic ramifications.

Japan | Disasters | Economy | Energy Production | Industry

South Korean schools close amid radiation fears
Guardian Unlimited | 08 Apr 2011
More than 100 schools close in Gyeonggi province, despite the PM's office saying radiation levels in rain pose no health risk. More than 100 South Korean schools have cancelled or shortened classes over fears that rain falling across the country may show traces of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. The Education Office of Gyeonggi province said it allowed schools to decide whether to open on Thursday.

China to ban imports of farm products from Japan
Reuters | 08 Apr 2011
China will ban the import of farm produce, including food, edible agricultural products and feedstuff, from 12 areas in Japan, the country's quarantine authorities said, as concerns about radiation contamination mount.

Japan to honour climate pledges despite nuclear crisis
New Scientist | 07 Apr 2011
Even in the aftermath of the recent earthquake and tsunami, Japan plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

Japanese nuclear engineers plug Fukushima leak
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Apr 2011
Workers stem flow of radioactive water into sea using mixture of sawdust, newspaper, concrete and a type of liquid glass. Engineers battling to contain the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant appeared to have turned an important corner last night after they stopped highly radioactive water from leaking into the ocean from one of the facility's crippled reactors.

Japan | Disasters | Government and Climate Change | Industry | Responses

Japan seabed shifted 24 meters after March quake
Reuters | 06 Apr 2011
Last month's massive earthquake that devastated Japan's northeast shifted the seabed near the epicenter by 24 meters (79 ft), the coast guard said.

Japan | Disasters

Environmental groups seek delay in new U.S. nuclear plants
Reuters | 06 Apr 2011
An alliance of southeastern public interest groups on Wednesday asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend the fast-track approval process for the new Westinghouse AP1000 reactor.

U.S. eyes more rules to prevent oil blowouts
Reuters | 05 Apr 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is weighing more safety standards for blowout preventers on oil-drilling rigs, after a probe uncovered a possible design flaw that may have helped to cause last year's massive Gulf oil spill, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday.

Japan to dump 11,500 tons low-radioactive water
Reuters | 05 Apr 2011
VIENNA (Reuters) - Japan will need to discharge a total of 11,500 tons of low-contaminated water into the ocean from the site of a stricken nuclear reactor, a senior Japanese nuclear official said in Vienna on Monday.

Japan | Disasters | Energy Production | Responses

Germany to phase out nuclear power: deputy minister
Reuters | 04 Apr 2011
A German deputy environment minister said the government would phase out all nuclear power in the country before 2020, taking a hard line stance that may not be reflective of the center-right coalition.

Milk, berries still contaminated from Chernobyl: Greenpeace
Reuters | 03 Apr 2011
Milk and other staples like mushrooms and berries are still contaminated in parts of Ukraine by radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, 25 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, Greenpeace said on Sunday.

Ukraine | Disasters | Energy Production | Health | Responses

Lawmakers probe plan to shelve Yucca nuclear dump
Reuters | 31 Mar 2011
Republican lawmakers on Thursday pressed the Obama administration on its decision to stop work on a permanent nuclear waste storage site inside Yucca Mountain, Nevada, launching a formal probe and grilling the nuclear regulator on Capitol Hill.

United States | Disasters | Economy | Energy Production | Responses

Fukushima soil contains plutonium traces, according to Japanese officials
Guardian Unlimited | 29 Mar 2011
Government says levels are not harmful to human health as anxiety grows over leaks at stricken nuclear power plant. Traces of plutonium have been found in the soil at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japanese officials said on Monday, but not at levels considered harmful to human health. The discovery of plutonium - a byproduct of nuclear reactions - added to anxiety over the stricken plant, 150 miles north of Tokyo.

Japan | Disasters | Health | Industry | Responses

UK must push on with nuclear plans: scientists
Reuters | 29 Mar 2011
Nuclear plants remain one of the safest ways to make electricity, and Britain should not allow Japan's tsunami-provoked problems to delay its new build plans, UK scientists said on Tuesday.

Japanese nuclear firm admits error on radiation reading
Guardian Unlimited | 28 Mar 2011
Tokyo Electric Power says initial reports of levels 10m times higher than normal in parts of No 2 reactor were inaccurate. Fresh doubt has been cast on the handling of the Fukushima nuclear crisis after officials admitted wildly overstating levels of radiation, prompting an evacuation of the...

Japan | Disasters | Energy Production | Health | Responses

Japan rejects Greenpeace argument for expanding evacuation zone
Reuters | 28 Mar 2011
Japan's nuclear safety agency on Monday rebuffed a call by Greenpeace to extend an evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima power plant.

Japan | Disasters | Industry | Responses

Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape
Guardian Unlimited | 27 Mar 2011
As Japan struggles with its nuclear plant crisis, the site of the biggest atomic disaster in history remains a grim, radioactive monument. Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl's grim radioactive legacy. An official guide at the wrecked nuclear power plant, he waves his...

Ukraine | Disasters | Industry | Responses

U.S. nuclear plant says shielded against Japan emergency
Reuters | 27 Mar 2011
A U.S. nuclear plant in Alabama similar in design to the earthquake-hit Fukushima facility in Japan has multiple defenses to prevent and tackle the same kind of emergency, its operator said.

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