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5 big losers in press freedom: Mali and ... Japan?
The annual World Press Freedom Index released today shows gains for Myanmar and others. Japan tumbled due to an informal ban placed on independent coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Here are five of the notable winners and losers on this year’s list.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2011: The surprising top 4 favorites
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In Pictures: Nuclear Japan: from meltdown to shutdown
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/10
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Farmers look for signs of hope six months after Japan's tsunami
Healthy grass and refurbished houses along the coast hard-hit by Japan's March 11 tsunami represent the frail beginnings of a return to normalcy.
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Opinion: NRC must implement nuclear regulations now, not 10 years after Fukushima
Americans narrowly avoided nuclear disasters during hurricane Irene and the 5.8 earthquake that hit the East Coast. Six months after Fukushima, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must implement new regulations, rather than debate reforms for the next decade, as it did post-9/11.
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Six months after Japan's tsunami, residents worry their plight is fading from view (video)
Many residents in Japan's northeast are struggling to put their lives back together six months after Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami. More than 80,000 people remain in temporary housing.
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Germany hits new green-power milestone
Green energy sources now account for 20 percent of Germany's electricity production – a new high. Germany aims to be 35 percent green by 2020, and to have phased out nuclear power by 2022.
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How Japan's Fukushima disaster may exacerbate population woes
Japan's aging population is resulting in a quickly shrinking workforce and low prospects for growth. Engaging women in the workforce more fully could help, but there's cultural resistance.
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Fukushima's nuclear cauldron: Retirees who want to go in
Fukushima's radiation has hit deadly levels for the second day, according to Tepco, making efforts to bring the nuclear plant under control difficult. Japan’s retired skilled laborers say they are ready to relieve younger workers.
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Fukushima radiation levels rise, area closed
Fukushima radiation has been found at potentially lethal levels at two locations. The area around the leaks has been evacuated.
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Monitor picks: Southern recipes, local news online, and movie music
A new Southern cookbook, a website that unites local newspapers, and the thrilling soundtrack to J. J. Abrams' 'Super 8', and more recommendations.
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Japan's nuclear crisis: Fukushima plant stability in sight?
The crippled reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are stable more than four months after the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami rocked the north, says the plant's operator.
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Who has final say over the fate of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant?
If a state wants to shutter a nuclear power plant, but the feds have relicensed it, does the state have legal grounds for closure? That question is being wrestled with in federal court.
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Energy that is plentiful and safe
A Christian Science perspective.
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Germany's trouble with abandoning nuclear power
Now that Germany is turning away from nuclear power, it is more reliant on renewable and traditional energy sources – both of which comes with problems of their own.
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Japan tackles mountains of trash left in tsunami's wake
Japanese cities leveled by the March tsunami are now left with more trash than they would normally dispose of in a century. Recycling it all is a daunting task.
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Women's World Cup victories boost Japan's morale
Japan will face the US on Sunday in the Women's World Cup final in Germany. The team's success in the Cup has lifted a nation rocked by the devastation of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear disaster.
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Nuclear safety review: how US plants could handle a Fukushima-type event
A task force convened by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after the Fukushima disaster offered a dozen major recommendations in its report, released Wednesday.
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Missouri River soaks Nebraska nuclear plant, but it's no Fukushima
Much of the grounds at Fort Calhoun nuclear plant in Nebraska are under two feet of water from the rising Missouri River. But the plant's critical systems sit six feet above the flood's expected crest.
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Beyond Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone, shuttered shops speak to radiation doubts
As Japan's Tokyo Electric and Power Company tries to recycle the highly contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, people just outside the exclusion zone won't let children play outside and worry about food contamination.
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In Pictures: Nuclear Japan: from meltdown to shutdown
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Beginning of the end for nuclear power in Japan?
Problems in stabilizing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have hardened attitudes: More than 80 percent of Japanese now say they are antinuclear and distrust government information on radiation.
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NRC hearing raises questions about safety at nuclear plants
A hearing of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) pointed to apparent weaknesses in the regulation of nuclear plants.
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Exposed only to Love
A Christian Science perspective: Unselfish acts of heroism made by "nuclear samurai" at the Fukushimi Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Fukushima meltdown could be template for nuclear terrorism, study says
The Fukushima meltdown showed how some nuclear plants are vulnerable to cooling-system failures. That might be of interest to Al Qaeda, which considered attacking US nuclear facilities after 9/11, a new study says.
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Germany to phase out nuclear power. Could the US do the same?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has endorsed a plan to end all nuclear power in Germany by 2022. Increasingly, studies suggest this is not a far-fetched idea, even for the US.
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Why Japan's Prime Minister Kan survived ouster bid
Prime Minister Naoto Kan offered to resign once he has brought the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant under control. The power play in parliament has gone over poorly with the public.
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IAEA criticizes Japan's Tepco for underestimating tsunami threat
An International Atomic Energy Agency report Wednesday said it was the tsunami that followed the March 11 earthquake that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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