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In fact, low natural gas prices stalled the U.S. nuclear renaissance outside Georgia and South Carolina, long before the reactor meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

Authored by John Laforge of CounterPunch The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima - Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of...

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

Not exact matches

TOKYO (AP)-- About 1,400 people filed a joint lawsuit Thursday against three companies that manufactured reactors at Japan's Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant, saying they should be financially liable for damage caused by their 2011 meltdowns.

Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has described the struggle to avoid meltdown at the nuclear plant's six reactors as a «race against the clock».

It is now clear that at least one reactor at Fukushima experienced a full core meltdown, so what does that mean for similar nuclear power plants in the U.S.?

The Fukushima cleanup operation is likely to resemble the protracted cleanup at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania, where one reactor experienced a partial meltdown in 1979.

Our worst commercial reactor accident, at Three Mile Island 2, was said to be successfully contained despite a partial meltdown, according to the NRC's investigation.

Threats of explosions and dangerously high radiation doses are just some of the risks facing workers trying to avert complete meltdowns at multiple reactors in Japan

After the meltdowns at Fukushima, Japanese utilities shut down their 50 intact reactors one by one.

Japan's devastating earthquake caused cooling problems at one of the nation's nuclear reactors, and authorities scrambled to prevent a meltdown

Scientists tested for radioactivity at eight different beaches within 100 kilometers of the plant, which experienced three reactor meltdowns when an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, knocked out its power.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

This led to core meltdowns at three of the six reactors at the facility, hydrogen explosions, and a release of radioactive material.

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Nuclear power fell into a long funk after the partial core meltdown at the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania in 1979.

Despite fresh worries about a new meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in Japan, the steam that set off this concern is merely a result of atmospheric conditions — and a reactor that is still hot from having melted down in 2011.

The Japanese plant has endured partial meltdowns in at least three of its six reactors, as well as two of its seven pools for storing spent fuel.

CATASTROPHIC meltdowns of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had less to do with the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March last year, and more to do with the plant owners» and government's failure to anticipate and prepare for emergencies on such an epic scale.

But in a meltdown that ring can be prone to cracking or leakage — as may have occurred at Fukushima Daiichi in multiple reactors.

Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi station in Japan are critically endangered but have not reached full meltdown status.

The meltdowns at three reactors and subsequent explosions released massive radioactive plumes.

A study projects 130 future cancer deaths from the meltdowns at the reactors in Fukushima last year, but does that suggest nuclear power is safer than fossil fuel alternatives?

The movie begins with a catastrophe at a Chinese power plant: a malicious little worm of code has wriggled its way into the system and shut down turbines in the cooling pool, leading to a reactor breach and the threat of meltdown.

The works on view feature the artist's signature use of synthetic resin Kuricoat C - 720, a neon - green substance sprayed at Fukushima Daiichi after the reactor meltdown in an effort to resist the airborne spread of radiation.

★ Diana Thater: «Chernobyl» (closes on Saturday) In this four - walled video projection, the viewer is immersed in layered, shifting images of the decaying buildings, rusting rubble and overgrown fields in and around Prypiat, a Ukrainian city built in the early 1970s for workers at the Chernobyl reactor and hastily abandoned after the reactor's nuclear meltdown in 1986.

Human Mask was partially shot on a drone camera in Fukushima in 2011 after the earthquake - triggered tsunami had caused the meltdown of three nuclear plant reactors, the evacuation of 300,000 people from the area and at least 1,600 deaths; the sense of desolation is palpable.

«Japan is to resume the use of nuclear power for the first time since last year's triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant after the government on Saturday approved the restart of two idled reactors»

In a matter of days, venting of hydrogen from overpressurized reactor vessels led to large explosions at reactors 1, 2, and 3, which experienced full meltdown.

Before the 2011 accident, in which a tidal wave caused three of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to go into meltdown, Japan only got 62 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai - ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan...