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Millstone To Look At Flood, Earthquake Protections
Associated PressHARTFORD — Millstone Power Station, Connecticut's sole nuclear plant, is focusing on how best to guard against flooding and earthquakes to comply with tougher federal standards following the nuclear plant meltdown in Japan last year, the new chief...Tags: Natural Disasters, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Power, Waterford, Japan
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Reimagining 'Snow White' fable
Snow White and the Huntsman Astonishingly beautiful and breathtaking in its brutal imagery, thrilling and frightening in equal measure, yet as bereft of satisfying substance as a poisoned apple. Director Rupert Sanders' revisionist take on the classic...
Tags: Jemaine Clement, Judd Apatow, Cher, Jesse McCartney, Will Smith
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(UPDATE 1) 'Men in Black' sequel powers past 'Avengers'
ReutersBy Ronald Grover and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, May 27 (Reuters) - Will Smith's return as Agent J to the popular "Men in Black" comedy franchise zapped invading aliens and toppled the steam rolling super hero film "The Avengers" from atop movie box...Tags: Nuclear Power, Chernobyl Diaries (movie), Tommy Lee Jones, Travel Alerts, Will Smith
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'Chernobyl Diaries': Horror movie and travel book depict extreme tourism
24 Frames"Chernobyl Diaries," a horror movie following a group of tourists on an excursion to the abandoned Ukrainian site of the meltdown, hits theaters just as a pollution travelogue by journalist Andrew Blackwell, "Visit Sunny Chernobyl," is arriving in book... -
'Chernobyl Diaries' Review: Creepy, Spooky and Altogether Nuke-y
Reuters"Chernobyl May 25 (TheWrap.com) - Diaries" isn't going to do the Russian National Tourist Office any favors, but it's a solidly suspenseful (if somewhat disposable) horror movie that makes a haunted house out of a real-life disaster area. Even if the...Tags: Movies, Tourism and Leisure, Jonathan Sadowski, Nathan Phillips, Jesse McCartney
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UPDATE 3-WHO releases mixed Fukushima radiation report
Reuters* Experts report on Japan's radiation levels after accident * Two locations have higher estimated doses * Infants in Namie seen at higher risk of thyroid cancer By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, May 23 (Reuters) - Spikes in radiation caused by the...Tags: Southeast Asia, Natural Disasters, Tsunamis, Soma (drug), Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)
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Japan local assembly OK's reactor restarts, hurdles remain
Reuters* Japanese public wary, split on nuclear power * Government likely to await ruling by authorities in prefecture * Critics say government too hasty in seeking restart of reactors By Linda Sieg TOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) - The assembly in a western...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Nuclear Power, Electricity Production and Distribution, Greenpeace, Volleyball
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UPDATE 1-Japan assembly agrees to restart reactors, hurdles remain
Reuters* Japanese public wary, split on nuclear power * Government likely to await ruling by authorities in prefecture * Critics say government too hasty in seeking restart of reactors * Mandatory power cuts won't be ruled out - Nikkei (Changes source for...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Nuclear Power, Electricity Production and Distribution, Greenpeace, Volleyball
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UPDATE 2-Japan assembly agrees to restart reactors, hurdles remain
Reuters* Japanese public wary, split on nuclear power * Government likely to await ruling by authorities in prefecture * Critics say government too hasty in seeking restart of reactors * Govt mulls mandatory power cuts * Kansai Electric consumers may face 20...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Nuclear Power, Electricity Production and Distribution, Greenpeace, Consumers
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Hope for Natural Gas Pipeline Shifts From Juneau to Japan
Channel 2 NewsAfter state lawmakers failed to pass legislation that might have brought a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, new hope for such a project has been revived Tuesday -- by officials with the government of Japan. On Monday night, Sen. Lisa...Tags: Natural Disasters, Nuclear Power, Energy Resources, Lisa Murkowski, Washington, DC
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News briefs for Thursday, May 3
U.S. ambassador denies blind Chinese activist's claim he was pressured to leave Embassy BEIJING (AP) — U.S. officials said Thursday they are still trying to help a blind Chinese activist who says he fears for his family's safety, and denied he...
Tags: Energy Saving, The Associated Press, Nuclear Power, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of Justice
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'Chernobyl Diaries' mines nuclear disaster for horror thrills
24 FramesAudiences will get a history lesson of sorts from "Chernobyl Diaries," a movie due in theaters May 25 which follows a group of young American tourists in Europe on a jaunt to the abandoned Ukrainian site of the 1986 nuclear meltdown....
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