Tag: earthquake

Since the current storage capacity will be full by the summer of 2022, and if no new storage facilities are built, the cost-effective way to dispose of the contaminated water would be to dilute and ... ( read original story ...)

resource-poor Japan continues to see nuclear power as an effective means to achieve a society with reduced carbon dioxide emissions. Still, many nuclear plants are offline following the 2011 Fukushima ... ( read original story ...)

Japan isn’t the only country with a nuclear ... Contaminated water in leaking tanks In 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami resulted in the meltdown of four large nuclear reactors, and ... ( read original story ...)

The U.S. nuclear power reactors facing the highest risks of a meltdown from earthquakes are not in tremor-prone California, but states including South ... ( read original story ...)

The 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan in 2011 and killed approximately 20,000 people was one of the biggest in the history of the country, and needless to say, those who experienced the whole thing on ... ( read original story ...)

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan Friday ranked among the most powerful earthquakes in the last 111 years, according to a geologist with the New York State Museum. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan has decided to delay making a decision on whether to ... plant suffered meltdowns that contaminated the surrounding areas following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has put off a decision to release treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, government ... ( read original story ...)

The Miyagi Prefectural Assembly has approved reactivation of the No. 2 unit of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant in the northeastern Japan Prefecture of ... ( read original story ...)

Tiny movements in Earth's outermost layer may provide a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the physics and warning signs of big quakes. New algorithms that work a little like human vision are now detecting ... ( read original story ...)

Measures of Earth's vibrations zigged and zagged across Mostafa Mousavi's screen one morning in Memphis, Tenn. As part of his Ph.D. studies in geophysics, he sat scanning earthquake signals recorded ... ( read original story ...)

Tiny movements in Earth’s outermost layer may provide a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the physics and warning signs of big quakes. New algorithms that work a little like human vision are now detecting ... ( read original story ...)

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A large earthquake shook south-western Iceland on Tuesday, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said on its website. WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Automakers are gearing up for ... ( read original story ...)

If an Alaskan earthquake triggers a tsunami that could hit Washington, residents would have a few hours to seek higher ground. ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government is planning on releasing millions of gallons of contaminated water into the ocean starting in 2022, according to international news reports. ( read original story ...)

Many so-called paranormal sightings are so obviously manufactured it’s tough not to get a bit cynical over the whole idea. But then you see something like this show, and, uh, it makes you question ... ( read original story ...)