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Japan Celebrates As Reactors Switched Off

CP | Yuri Kageyama, The Associated Press | Posted 05.05.2012 | Canada
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TOKYO - Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the last of this nation's 50 nuclear reactors switching off Saturday, shaking banners shaped as gia...

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Japan, 1 Year On

CBC | Posted 05.10.2012 | Canada
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Japan stopped on Sunday to remember the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation a year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashi...

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'The Disaster Took Everybody’s Life And Hope'

CBC | Posted 05.09.2012 | Canada
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As Japan prepares to mark the anniversary of last year’s devastating natural and nuclear disaster, many of the evacuees in a city near t...

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Size Isn't Everything, Baby: The New, Small "Green" Nuclear Reactor

John Brian Shannon | Posted 05.09.2012 | Canada
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John Brian Shannon

New hope for the nuclear power industry has arrived in the form of a brand-new nuclear power plant design -- known as small scale "modular" nuclear reactor, which is a profoundly better answer to the ultra-costly retrofitting of very old and large nuclear plants -- and long overdue for most of the world's reactors.

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