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- Japan’s parliament declares ‘climate emergency’ to support government’s zero emissions goal
The lower chamber of Japan’s parliament declared a climate emergency on Thursday, after the new prime minister recently pledged to make the country carbon neutral by 2050.Nov 19, 2020 12:33World News - Greenpeace condemns Japanese plans to release Fukushima reactor water into the sea, claims it could damage human DNAGreenpeace has warned that radioactive water from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant contains matter that could damage human DNA if discharged into the ocean, as reportedly planned.Oct 23, 2020 13:45World News
- WATCH: Cameras go inside Fukushima nuclear power plant to show cleanup progress since 2011 tsunami damageCameras were invited into the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan to show the progress made since three of its reactors melted down in 2011, due to the effects of a tsunami caused by a magnitude 9 earthquake.Jan 29, 2020 23:23World News
- Fukushima’s radioactive farmland to become clean-energy hub, powering the region & Tokyo metropolitan areaJapan’s Fukushima Prefecture, which suffered one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters eight years ago, is now set to be transformed into a renewable energy hub, with the first solar farm to start working there in January.Nov 11, 2019 09:48Business News
- Typhoon Hagibis sweeps away bags full of radioactive Fukushima waste as Japan’s authorities say nothing to worry about (VIDEOS)Tons of nuclear-contaminated debris were dumped into Japan’s Furumichi River when devastating Typhoon Hagibis washed away numerous bags of poorly-secured Fukushima waste – but the Environment Ministry won’t say how many.Oct 17, 2019 04:06World News
- Russian nuclear firm wins contracts to clean up FukushimaRussian state nuclear corporation Rosatom will help Japan in handling the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant (NPP) and will be engaged in the nuclear control plan, according to the company’s CEO Aleksey Likhachev.Jan 14, 2019 12:00Business News
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