Thema: GAU

NTD: The disaster of Fukushima

TEPCO Confirms Meltdown at Fukushima Reactors 2 & 3

Tokyo Electric Power Company has confirmed that there were meltdowns of fuel rods at three of the plant's reactors early in the crisis. Earlier this month it said that fuel rods in the No.1 reactor melted, but officials confirmed at a news conference that there were also meltdowns of fuel rods at the plant's No.2 and No.3 reactors early in...

24.05.2011

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Anti-Government Protests Continue in Tokyo

Japanese protesters march through the streets of Tokyo demanding the government take responsibility for the accident that caused radiation to leak into the sea. Anti-nuclear demonstrations have become common here since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami severely damaged nuclear reactors in northern Japan. But one former lawmaker says this...

19.04.2011

NTD: fukushima

Japan Raises Nuclear Accident Severity to Level 7

Japan raised the severity of its nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to a level seven on Tuesday, putting it on par with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Officials say the rating reflects the initial severity of the crisis, but radiation levels are much lower now. [Hidehiko Nishiyama, Nuclear & Industrial Safety...

13.04.2011

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Explosion at Nuclear Plant in Japan

Local television broadcast pictures of an explosion at a nuclear plant in Japan's Fukushima prefecture. Smoke billows from the 40-year-old Daichi 1 nuclear plant. The explosion blew off the roof of the unstable reactor, raising fears of a disastrous meltdown. NHK television said the outer structure of the building which houses the reactor...

14.03.2011

IAEA soll schwedische Atomkraftwerke überprüfen

Stockholm – Nach einer Serie von Pannen in schwedischen Kernkraftwerken hat die Atomaufsichtsbehörde des Landes internationale Inspektionen angeordnet. Demnach sollen Experten der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) die Sicherheit überprüfen. Zuvor wurde am Freitag einer von vier Reaktoren im größten schwedischen Atomkraftwerk...

16.02.2007