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By Matthew L Wald for the New York Times
WASHINGTON — All 104 nuclear power reactors now operating in the United States have a safety problem that cannot be fixed and they should be replaced with newer technology, the former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Monday. Shutting them down all at once is not practical, he said, but he supports phasing them out rather than trying to extend their lives…
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Radioactive water 'escapes' from Fukushima storage tank.
by Common Dreams staff
Up to 120 tonnes of radioactive water may have "escaped" from an underground storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, an official announced Saturday.
"We are transferring the remaining water from the tank to others," said a Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) spokesman. The company claims that it is "unlikely" any of the contaminated water found its way into the ocean.
The contaminated water may have leaked from one of the seven underground reservoir tanks which stores water previously used to cool down the nuclear reactors, AFP reports.
The news follows reports Friday that one of the plant's cooling systems had failed temporarily, the second outage in a matter of weeks.
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Published on Saturday, April 6, 2013 by Common Dreams
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Investment in services preferred.
by SGNews Staff
An Environics poll conducted February 14 – 21 shows that more than 70 percent of Albertans rejects the idea of cuts to public services. More than three quarters of those polled agreed that there should be an increase in taxes for the wealthy and corporations.