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Stemming reactor water leak ‘urgent’
Posted by BBC: Paul Rincon on March 30th, 2011
BBC: Water clear-up 'urgent' at reactor
The focus of efforts to stabilise the situation are now focussed on reactor 2
Tepco bailout speculation grows Inside the evacuation zone Japan quake: Aid worker's diary Q&A: Fukushima alert
At this stage, the announcement by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) that it will decommission four hobbled nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan, is little more than a formality.
Their fates were more or less sealed when the company took a decision - a few days into...
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Japan Plant Grapples With Contaminated Water
Posted by National Public Radio: Eliza Barclay on March 30th, 2011
National Public Radio: Nearly three weeks after the earthquake and tsunami wreaked havoc on an aging nuclear power plant on Japan's Pacific coast, officials handling the crisis face multiplying hurdles, making the end goal of a stable facility with a functioning cooling system seem further from reach.
The cores that house nuclear fuel are damaged in several of the plant's six reactors, and radioactive material continues to trickle from them, forcing officials to consider increasingly extreme ways to take back control....
Finally, California Finds a Surplus: 50 Feet of Snow
Posted by New York Times: JESSE McKINLEY on March 30th, 2011
New York Times: Sure, fine, California may have its problems right now. There is the budget, yes, what with that pesky $26.5 billion deficit, and the legislative stalemate with its, you know, stalemate-ness. Unemployment is still high, and so is anxiety, about everything from housing prices to radioactive clouds drifting over from Japan.
But California has at least one thing going for it at the moment: Mother Nature. This winter, the state, which had been stuck in a prolonged drought, was positively walloped...
Alaska Clash Over Resources and Rights Heats Up
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2011
New York Times: Anyone interested in learning more about the distinctive flora and fauna here in the Last Frontier will want to pick up a copy of an unconventional new field guide: the 2010 Annual Report of the Alaska Department of Law.
Just published in January, the report, on Page 21, tells the fascinating tale of the Cook Inlet beluga whale — specifically of Alaska’s legal battle to remove it from the federal endangered species list. On Page 22, it recounts the state’s continuing fight to remove protections...