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Nuclear disasters: Is the fear realistic?

The future of earthquake-ravaged nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi is still anyone’s guess, but it’s already triggered fears of subsequent nuclear disasters elsewhere. As efforts continue to get radiation levels under control in the damaged facilities in Japan, several countries have expressed doubts about their own nuclear programs. And seven in 10 Americans say they’re …

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Radiation found in food as workers scramble to curb nuclear crisis

The Japanese government said Saturday that abnormally high levels of radiation were detected in spinach and milk that came from farms near a tsunami-affected nuclear plant as emergency workers moved closer to restoring cooling systems in the reactors. Crews struggling to bring the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control had some success Sunday as …

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Japan crisis could end up more serious than Three Mile Island

Energy Secretary Steven Chu told members of Congress Wednesday that the rapidly unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan may be more serious than the situation faced by U.S. officials during the Three Mile Island meltdown in 1979. But “we don’t really know in detail what’s happening” in Japan, he cautioned. “We hear conflicting reports.” “What I …

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