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Japan to spend $12.5B bailing out and taking over operator of tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant

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The Japanese government approved on Wednesday a ¥1-trillion (US$12.5-billion) public bailout for the operator of Japan’s tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant and put it under temporary state control (more…)

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Japan to take controlling stake of Fukushima operator

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The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, TEPCO, is to be partially taken over by the government, effectively nationalizing one of the country's largest utility companies. (more here…)

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Japan bails out Fukushima nuclear plant operator

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The government approved on Wednesday a 1 trillion yen public bailout for the operator of Japan's tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant and put it under temporary state control. (more here…)

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Japan to provide $12.5B to nuclear plant operator

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The government approved on Wednesday a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) public bailout for the operator of Japan's tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant and put it under temporary state control. (more here…)

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Japan to provide $12.5 billion to operator of tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant

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TOKYO – The government approved on Wednesday a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) public bailout for the operator of Japan's tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant and put it under temporary state control. (more here…)

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Concerns mount over the growing threat from Fukushima’s spent fuel – will the experts’ warning call be heard?

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MOSCOW – More than a year since the catastrophic nuclear and radiation disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, concerns loom ever larger over the site as experts warn with increasing worry of the unstable condition of the cooling pond at Unit 4, where spent nuclear fuel holds ten times the amount of radioactive...

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