Keyword: Japan earthquake
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05.05.2011
- Workers were set to enter the No.1 reactor building at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday for the first time since an explosion ripped its roof off a day...
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28.04.2011
- Shin-Etsu Chemical said on Thursday it aims to restore production at its Shirakawa factory in northern Japan to pre-quake levels by late June or July. The factory, which makes...
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28.04.2011
- Japanese engineers are struggling to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was seriously damaged by the March 11...
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18.04.2011
- Japan's Tokyo Electric Power said on Sunday it hoped to achieve a "cold shutdown" of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in six to nine months, setting a timeframe for...
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14.04.2011
- Japanese engineers are struggling to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was seriously damaged by the March 11...
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13.04.2011
- Japan's naphtha imports for the petrochemical sector fell 10% in March from the same month a year earlier, government figures showed on Wednesday, reflecting the impact of last...
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13.04.2011
- An increase in the severity level of Japan's nuclear accident does not mean the public health risk is any worse or that the disaster resembles Chernobyl in 1986, global expert...
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08.04.2011
- Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical said on Friday that it aims to restart the No.2 naphtha cracker at its Kashima plant, with capacity to produce 453,000 tons per year of ethylene, around...
