Japan disaster complicates moves to clean energy
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Worldwide calls to curb nuclear power amid Japan's plant crisis could be bad news for the fight against global warming - unless nations finally go all-out to tap wind, solar and other clean, renewable energy, climate change negotiators and activists ...

Japan disaster complicates moves to clean energy
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BANGKOK (AP) — Worldwide calls to curb nuclear power amid Japan’s plant crisis could be bad news for the environment unless nations finally go all-out to tap wind, solar and other clean, renewable energy, climate change negotiators and activists say. ...

Japan disaster complicates moves to clean energy (AP)
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AP - Worldwide calls to curb nuclear power amid Japan's plant crisis could be bad news for the environment unless nations finally go all-out to tap wind, solar and other clean, renewable energy, climate change negotiators and activists say. ...

Bovey Lee's Elegaic Crisis Cutouts Inspired By Japan's Tsunami And Power Plants
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Bovey Lee's intricate cutouts are a delicate response to disaster. Lee, who made these particular rice paper cutouts in 2008 and 2009, presaged the natural and nuclear crises that have put the world on edge in recent weeks, and her elegaic work feels ...

Germany's nuclear operators: Decaying faster
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Last year’s reprieve for the nuclear-power industry was too good to last SIX months ago Germany’s four biggest power companies thought they had a deal: the lives of their 17 nuclear plants would be extended for an average of 12 years. In return they ...

GE to build nation’s largest solar power plant
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NEW YORK (AP) — GE is taking aim at the world’s biggest solar company in a bid to expand into a fast-growing renewable energy market. General Electric Co. announced Thursday that it would spend $600 million to build the nation’s biggest solar panel f ...

GE to build nation's largest solar power plant
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GE is taking aim at the world's biggest solar company in a bid to expand into a fast-growing renewable energy market. ...

Snapshot: Japan's nuclear crisis (Reuters)
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Reuters - Following are main developments after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and crippled a nuclear power station, raising the risk of an uncontrolled radiation leak. ...

Strong quake hits off Japan; new tsunami alert issued
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Magnitude 7.4 earthquake shakes buildings in Tokyo - witnesses ...

U.S. Nuclear Regulators Privately Doubted Power Plants Despite Expressing Public Confidence, Documents Show
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BOSTON (By Scott Malone) – U.S. regulators privately have expressed doubts that some of the nation's nuclear power plants are prepared for a Fukushima-scale disaster, undercutting their public confidence since Japan's nuclear crisis began, documents ...

U.S. officials doubted nuclear safety plans: watchdog (Reuters)
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Reuters - U.S. regulators privately have expressed doubts that some of the nation's nuclear power plants are prepared for a Fukushima-scale disaster, undercutting their public confidence since Japan's nuclear crisis began, documents released by an i ...

Japanese Golfers at Masters Aim to Lift Spirits in Quake-Stricken Homeland
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Hideki Matsuyama of Japan said he struggled with whether to give up his boyhood dream of playing golf’s Masters Tournament after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated his home country last month. ...

Energy Secretary Steven Chu: 'Imprudent' to close US nuclear plants
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu discussed Japan's nuclear crisis, the clean-energy transition, and the future of nuclear power in the US at the Monitor breakfast April 1. ...

Japan quake victim ID'd as American teacher
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Monty Dickson, 26, called girlfriend minutes after massive earthquake hit but wasn't heard of after tsunami swept his town ...

FUNimation holds charity auction for Japan
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Raymond Herrera Following the recent 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan FUNimation Entertainment has decided to hold some online charity auctions on eBay to help raise money for the disaster relief efforts.The auctions began ...

Fishermen: Utility's actions in Japan nuclear crisis 'unforgivable'
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Japanese fishermen have taken the offensive in their fight against the owner of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant, angrily calling the utility's actions insulting, incompetent and "unforgivable" over the course of the weeks-long nuclear cris ...


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