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New Japan PM Visits Tsunami-Wrecked Nuclear Plant
Dai-Ichi nuclear plant on Saturday the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — and greeted triggering radiation -spewing distrust in nuclear plant operators to clean up radiation released by
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When Your Identity Is Tossed Out the Window... Literallyunsurprising --- after all, identity theft, like the radiation at Chernobyl or the germs that cause cholera, is invisible, and thus easy for non-victims to ignore. Like cholera, radiation poisoning, and a host of other ills, identity theft
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Japan Nuclear Accident : 'Abnormalities' in Butterflies Traced to Fukushima Plant
butterflies around the nuclear plant two months after exposed to artificial radiation ," the researchers exposed to internal radiation ." It has been disaster since Chernobyl , and its effects minimal, with no radiation -related deaths
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May 14: Skylab Space Station Launch 1973
the 1970s as a community action group. 1986 Gorbachev Speaks About Chernobyl Soviet leader made his first comments on Chernobyl 18 days after the nuclear accident . Gorbachev said the accident has "disturbed
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Radiation From Japan Disaster Found Along California Coast
material from a nuclear plant damaged in the state after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power accidents, such as Chernobyl , have indicated that any radiation that reached the and some of the radiation is very long-lasting
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Japan Stands Still to Mark Earthquake, Tsunami a Year Later
disaster since Chernobyl . Sirens that spewed radiation into the decommission the nuclear plant , a tedious to reduce radiation levels as ambitious decontamination project that reports of radiation -related
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Evacuating From Fukushima After Earthquake and Tsunami: Two Mothers' StoriesFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant sent fear across miles from the nuclear plant . She had heard the horrors of Chernobyl , and even though explosion at the nuclear plant , that she and the dangers of radiation . The disaster
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White 'Cobwebs' Found in Nuclear Waste Poolquestions about what radiation does to living things around the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear plant after the 1986 accident there said around the wrecked nuclear plant in the decades after for them than the radiation was," Baker said
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Japan's Nuclear Exclusion Zone Shows Few Signs of Lifeworld's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl , 11 months on. While workers of counter and dosimeter to monitor radiation levels, then slipped past police located just 9 miles from the plant. Radiation concerns forced he and fellow ranchers
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Radioactive Concrete Is Latest Scare for Fukushima Survivors
the crippled nuclear plant . The contamination was exposed to radiation spewing from is the latest radiation scare that has triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl . 80,000 people to escape radiation . "I just feel
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Could New Nuclear Reactor Have Prevented Fukushima?
multiple partial meltdown, radiation leaks, and a massive around. But images of Chernobyl and Three-Mile Island of people oppose new nuclear plant construction, a spike hand, any potential nuclear accident could be catastrophic
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Top 5 Health Stories of 2011
reactors at a nuclear plant in Fukushima began Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant , the FDA announced the levels of radiation were far below nuclear crisis since Chernobyl . But the fallout abnormally high radiation levels that experts
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Man Who Fought to Stabilize Japan’s Crippled Nuke Plants Hospitalized
release the amount of radiation Yoshida had been exposed Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant reactors since a catastrophic nuclear disaster since Chernobyl . Nearly nine months with high levels of radiation . More than 80,000 people
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April 28, 1986 : Chernobyl DisasterThere has been a nuclear accident in the Soviet mild nuclear radiation had already question is in the Ukraine it's something worst American nuclear accident occurred at their first nuclear accident . But it's
There has been a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union and the Soviets have admitted that it happened the Soviet version is this. One of the atomic reactors at the turn of all atomic power plant in the city of Kia was damaged. And there is speculation in Moscow that people were injured and may have died the Soviets may have been fairly quick to acknowledge the accident because evidence. In the form of mild -- nuclear radiation had already reached beyond the Soviet borders to Scandinavia. We Begin with -- ABC's dean Reynolds.are used to seeing. Built around US reactors. When the worst American nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island mostly beam radiation was kept inside the containment building. Unlike this Soviet accident where radiation has been measured 600 to a thousand miles away.concerned we don't -- dangerous situation. The Soviets -- this their first nuclear accident . But it's -- in 1950 -- nuclear explosion killed several hundred left a large area contaminated some 800 miles east of Moscow. -
April 26, 2006: Chernobyl Disaster 20 Years Laterreactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear plant 56 people were killed caused by the huge radiation release. 300000 people Twenty years later Chernobyl remains a very dangerous medicine. Antidotes for radiation poisoning that you
man made disasters. Twenty years ago today a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear plant 56 people were killed. Another 9300. Are expected to die from cancers caused by the huge radiation release. 300000 people were permanently evacuated from the area. Twenty years later Chernobyl remains a very dangerous place and yet some people have insisted on returning. ABC's David Wright reports tonight from the dead zone. -
April 30, 1986 : Chernobyl Nuclear DisasterThen Soviet nuclear accident in the Ukraine created fallout today in Chicago. Not radiation not that kind of fallout the impact of drifting radiation on Poland and Scandinavia tested for possible radiation . Every. Passengers
Then Soviet nuclear accident in the Ukraine created fallout today in Chicago. Not radiation not that kind of fallout this was a purely economic reaction. US investors betting tens of millions of dollars on grain and livestock futures. Simply put investors were assuming today that radioactive fallout is contaminating the Soviet wait. Pastures cattle and hogs and that in weeks to come the Soviets will have to buy those commodities here in the United States. Certainly there are questions not only about Soviet food supplies but about the impact of drifting radiation on Poland and Scandinavia. And -- the food exports from those countries have been or will be affected. What -- dealing with -
April 29, 1986 : Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdownreactor in Chernobyl near The of one of Chernobyl 's four was damaged radiation was released Sources say radiation contamination at Chernobyl is heavy miles of Chernobyl . Happening from the Ukraine . So be newspapers materials and radiation leaks at
anything unusual had happened though they passed within a hundred miles of Chernobyl . Happening in it. Still let Moscow airports and train station Soviet police were very nervous about reporters trying to interview people arriving from the Ukraine . So be -- newspapers -- almost any mention of the incident although radio Moscow said. -
Another Chernobyl?initial reports of heights levels of radiation . Outside and inside that react and now they say radiation is decreasing so that would be the worst incidents since the 1986 . Chernobyl disaster Joseph. We appreciate your time
has the potential will be one of the worst incidents since the 1986 . Chernobyl disaster Joseph. We appreciate your time thank you this morning. And -- are you most concerned about when you hear the news coming -
Living With a Nuclear Disasterafter the Chernobyl disaster the land infamous Chernobyl nuclear plant the site April 26 1986 . Nuclear tracks the radiation leaking from month after Chernobyl for the families cloud of Chernobyl . The principle
because her father's office is just twenty miles away. At the infamous Chernobyl nuclear plant the site of the worst manmade disaster in the world. April 26 1986 Nuclear reactor number -- exploded unleashing a toxic inferno. -- just like the Soviets did twenty years ago. It is now an American who tracks the radiation leaking from the plant the dome built over the plant after the disaster has begun to crack. And it's -- plates job -
May 14, 1986 : Gorbachev Speaks About Chernobylpossible to limit the damage thanks to the bravery and expertise about people and their devotion to duty. The level of the radiation in the area of the most Asian and immediately adjacent area is remains dangerous to the health of people. The highest priority
expertise about people and their devotion to duty. The level of the radiation in the area of the most Asian and immediately adjacent area is -- remains dangerous to the health of people. The highest
