ROLLING UPDATE from Beginning of Crisis
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16 May 2011
ALL: Study: Seaports unready for climate change
CANADA: Climate change threatens arctic coastlines
CHINA: China’s Nuclear Arsenal: Status and Evolution
EUROPE-SPAIN: Spanish Quake Jolts European Nuclear Debate
GERMANY-JAPAN-USA: Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables
INDIA: Manmohan Singh takes stock of country's nuclear arsenal
INDIA-PAKISTAN: Towards An Indo-Pak Nuclear Lexicon: Minimum Nuclear Deterrence – Analysis
INDONESIA: Strong earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s Java island
JAPAN: Japanese Officials Ignored or Concealed Dangers
JAPAN: Japan Sticks to Timeline for Solving Nuclear Crisis
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. also acknowledged that one of the factors contributing to a rapid meltdown of reactor cores was the failure to keep emergency batteries safe from the tsunami, preventing a key emergency cooling system from performing its intended function.
Meanwhile, Tepco said one of the key causes of a rapid meltdown at Unit No. 1 was the failure of two emergency cooling mechanisms—the suppression pool and the isolation condenser—to perform their intended functions.
PAKISTAN: Pakistan's nuclear surge exposed
Indian slam, satellite and video, 100% jump by 2021.
SWEDEN: Sweden's Holding Tank For Nuclear Waste
“We have here about 2,000 tons that you are looking (at), and you can stand here as long as you want to,” she tells me before quickly adding, “If we take one of these bundles out of the water I will give you 20 seconds to leave this room alive.”
USA: US reactor outages 50 pct above late-spring average
USA: U.S. Nuclear Output Falls as Entergy, Progress Shut Reactors
Twenty- five of the nation’s 104 reactors were offline.
USA: 75% of Americans Have Never Heard of Climate-Gate, Study Reveals
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