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  Japan OKs fuel removal from pool at nuke plant

  World | October 30, 2013 10:52 IST

  Tokyo : Japanese regulators have given a final approval for a plan to remove fuel rods from an uncontained cooling pool at a damaged reactor building considered as the highest risk at the crippled nuclear

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  Japan Declares Tsunami-Crippled Nuke Plant Stable

  World | December 16, 2011 21:27 IST

  Tokyo, Dec 16: The tsunami-devastated Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has reached a stable state of “cold shutdown” and is no longer leaking substantial amounts of radiation, Japan's prime minister announced today.  Prime Minister Yoshihiko

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  Germany Shuts Down 7 Nuke Reactors

  World | March 16, 2011 9:50 IST

  Berlin, March 15: German today ordered a temporary shut-down of seven oldest nuclear reactors in the country, a day after it announced a thorough review of the safety systems of all 17 such units in

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  Quake-Hit Nuke Plant 'May Be In Meltdown'

  World | March 13, 2011 11:18 IST

  Tokyo, Mar 12: Japan's nuclear authorities warned today that quake-hit atomic plant Fukushima No. 1, about 250 kilometres northeast of Tokyo, "may be experiencing a nuclear meltdown", media said.Kyodo News agency said radioactive caesium had