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Experts discuss ways to cleanup oil spills in Arctic waters
As oil drilling experts considered the most outlandish of Arctic
challenges, involving icebergs and whaling routes, the more fundamental
issue of spill cleanup remained the main concern at a Houston conference
Tuesday.
TEPCO: Half of contract workers at Fukushima
work under dodgy conditions
Nearly half of contract workers at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
power plant after the disaster there last year toiled in conditions that
apparently breached labor laws, according to a survey by Tokyo Electric
Power Co., the plant operator.
More than 80% of Fukushima homes still awaiting decontamination
It has been well over a year and half since the March 11th, 2011
tsunami struck the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing the worst meltdown
crisis in more than 20 years. But more than 80% of people’s homes located
in the surrounding area, which reaches as many as seven prefectures, are
still waiting to be cleared of the radioactive particles that were released,
and be safe for their owners to return once more.
Nuclear disaster evacuee feels discrimination as ‘refugee’
Natsumi Takakura cannot cast her vote in the Dec. 16 Lower House
election in her hometown. Nor can she find a polling station near her new
home–her family’s seventh in less than two years.
It is just one of the many inconveniences–some minor, others
aggravating–that continue to plague residents who evacuated after the
Fukushima nuclear disaster last year.
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