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Palisades could remain closed at least another month after radioactive leak
COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant has been shut down for a couple of weeks after dozens of gallon of radioactive water leaked from the plant into Lake Michigan. Last Monday, southwest Michigan Congressman toured the...
Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Power
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Palisades owners try to ease fears over radioactive leak
COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The owners of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant have some challenges on their hands. First – find out what caused a leak that let nearly 80 gallons of radioactive water into Lake Michigan. The other priority...
Tags: Nuclear Power
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Search for radioactive leak at Palisades nuclear plant
WSBT-TVVAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. – Government regulators and the operators of a nuclear power plant are trying to figure out why several gallons of radioactive water leaked into Lake Michigan over the weekend. The Palisades nuclear power plant remains...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Lake Michigan, Nuclear Power, Plant Openings
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Radiation pills selling out
SOUTH BEND -- Since the concern of a nuclear meltdown in Japan, people across the U.S. have started to take steps to keep themselves safe. Many have been buying a drug that limits exposure to radiation and it's been flying off store and pharmacy...Tags: Health, Japan, American Red Cross, Drugs and Medicines, Social Issues
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NRC raising oversight of Pennsylvania Three Mile Island reactor
ReutersApril 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said on Tuesday it will increase oversight of Exelon Corp's 805-megawatt Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, to ensure that safety equipment is protected from flooding....Tags: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Three Mile Island Accident (1979), Nuclear Power
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The Markley TV Club: Final Season of 'West Wing'
My roommate Pat and I recently, for some reason, watched the final season of “The West Wing” together on Netflix, which produced a number of arguments, speculations, and asides that I have compiled in an e-mail exchange for the inaugural...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Columbia University, U.S. Congress, CVS Corp., Separation of Church and State
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From disaster comes knowledge
Beverly Findlay-Kaneko has used her memories of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan two years ago to start making a change in her new home of Huntington Beach. Findlay-Kaneko was in Japan when those natural disasters led to three...Tags: Students, Japan, Natural Disasters, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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The danger of relying on nuclear power plants
Norman Meadow's commentary promoting nuclear power over wind energy as a solution to climate change leaves out serious unsolved problems that wind does not present ("Nuclear blows away wind," Feb. 1). Huge piles of highly radioactive waste are sitting...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Renewable Energy, Nuclear Power, Disasters and Accidents, Chernobyl Disaster (1986)
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L.A. Now Live: A homeless woman is set ablaze in Van Nuys
L.A. NOWA homeless woman known to many as Flo remained in critical condition Friday after being doused with a flammable liquid and set ablaze on a bus bench on Van Nuys Boulevard. Times Staff Writers Richard Winton and Ashley Powers will...... -
8 U.S. sailors sue Japanese firm over radiation from nuclear meltdown
L.A. NOWEight sailors from the Coronado-based carrier Ronald Reagan are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. for allegedly lying about the danger from radiation caused by the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant, according to Bloomberg News. The ship was... -
More frosty weather and rain expected this weekend
L.A. NOWKeep your gloves and umbrellas out because more chilly weather and rain are expected for the last weekend of 2012, the National Weather Service says. Cold temperatures experienced throughout the region Thursday night and Friday morning were due to low....... -
San Diego mother pleads guilty to drowning autistic son
L.A. NOWJust minutes after she drowned her 4-year-old autistic son in the family bathtub, Patricia Corby drove to the neighborhood police station in San Diego with his lifeless body wrapped in a blanket and admitted what she had done, police said.......
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