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"Radioactive Coolant" Leaks From Europe's Largest Nuclear Reactor: Report
About 100 cubic metres of "radioactive coolant" leaked from Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, the largest in Europe, operator TVO said Monday, adding that the incident posed no safety risk.
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India's Nuclear Disaster Emergency Plans 'Outdated': Greenpeace
India's nuclear disaster emergency plans are "not in line with international standard" and some interventions set by Indian nuclear regulator in case of an emergency provide "inadequate" protection against possible radiation leak, Greenpeace India claimed today.
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Gujarat Nuclear Reactor Shut After Leakage. Rest Safe? Top Scientist Explains
Nearly two months after the nuclear reactor at Gujarat's Kakrapar developed a leak in its cooling system and was shut down, nuclear engineers are yet to find how it was caused. And although there was no leakage of radioactivity, the matter has triggered concerns about the safety of the country's 18 other nuclear reactors.
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Radioactive Water Leak Suspends Japan Reactor Start-Up
A radioactive water leak has halted plans to re-start a reactor at a nuclear power plant in western Japan, which would have been the fourth to come online after a nationwide shutdown, its operator said on Sunday.
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New York Orders Probe After Radioactive Leak At Nuclear Reactor
A nuclear power plant north of New York City has leaked water contaminated with radioactive tritium into the groundwater below the facility, sparking an investigation by state officials, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday.
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Restart of Japan's First Nuclear Reactor Post Fukushima Disaster Delayed
Japan's Kyushu Electric Power said today it has delayed the restart of its Sendai nuclear plant in southwestern Japan, the first to be brought back into service under new rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
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Gas Leak Kills Three at South Korean Nuclear Plant
Three people were killed in a gas leak today at an under-construction atomic reactor in South Korea, but the national nuclear operator ruled out any connection to a cyber-attack that targeted the plant last week.
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Fukushima Nuclear Plant Struggling to Build Ice Wall to Plug Leak
The operator of Japan's battered Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Tuesday it was having trouble with the early stages of an ice wall being built under broken reactors to contain radioactive water.
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Japan PM seeks overseas help on Fukushima leak
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening radioactive water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima.
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Radioactive fluid leaks at French nuclear reactor
Radioactive cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor on Thursday following two small fires, but the spillage was safely collected in special tanks, officials said. A reactor at the power plant in Penly on the English Channel near the port of Dieppe shut down automatically after two small fires broke out on Thursday, the plant's operator EDF...
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"Radioactive Coolant" Leaks From Europe's Largest Nuclear Reactor: Report
About 100 cubic metres of "radioactive coolant" leaked from Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, the largest in Europe, operator TVO said Monday, adding that the incident posed no safety risk.
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India's Nuclear Disaster Emergency Plans 'Outdated': Greenpeace
India's nuclear disaster emergency plans are "not in line with international standard" and some interventions set by Indian nuclear regulator in case of an emergency provide "inadequate" protection against possible radiation leak, Greenpeace India claimed today.
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Gujarat Nuclear Reactor Shut After Leakage. Rest Safe? Top Scientist Explains
Nearly two months after the nuclear reactor at Gujarat's Kakrapar developed a leak in its cooling system and was shut down, nuclear engineers are yet to find how it was caused. And although there was no leakage of radioactivity, the matter has triggered concerns about the safety of the country's 18 other nuclear reactors.
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Radioactive Water Leak Suspends Japan Reactor Start-Up
A radioactive water leak has halted plans to re-start a reactor at a nuclear power plant in western Japan, which would have been the fourth to come online after a nationwide shutdown, its operator said on Sunday.
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New York Orders Probe After Radioactive Leak At Nuclear Reactor
A nuclear power plant north of New York City has leaked water contaminated with radioactive tritium into the groundwater below the facility, sparking an investigation by state officials, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday.
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Restart of Japan's First Nuclear Reactor Post Fukushima Disaster Delayed
Japan's Kyushu Electric Power said today it has delayed the restart of its Sendai nuclear plant in southwestern Japan, the first to be brought back into service under new rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
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Gas Leak Kills Three at South Korean Nuclear Plant
Three people were killed in a gas leak today at an under-construction atomic reactor in South Korea, but the national nuclear operator ruled out any connection to a cyber-attack that targeted the plant last week.
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Fukushima Nuclear Plant Struggling to Build Ice Wall to Plug Leak
The operator of Japan's battered Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Tuesday it was having trouble with the early stages of an ice wall being built under broken reactors to contain radioactive water.
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Japan PM seeks overseas help on Fukushima leak
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening radioactive water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima.
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Radioactive fluid leaks at French nuclear reactor
Radioactive cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor on Thursday following two small fires, but the spillage was safely collected in special tanks, officials said. A reactor at the power plant in Penly on the English Channel near the port of Dieppe shut down automatically after two small fires broke out on Thursday, the plant's operator EDF...
