WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan has asked the United States for additional equipment to help provide water and other resources to keep quake-damaged nuclear reactors cool,...
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3rd blast strikes Japan nuclear plant as workers struggle to cool reactor
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White House re-states nuclear power support, committed to ‘learning’ from Japanese crisis
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Lieberman: 'Put the brakes on' new nuclear reactors over Japanese disaster
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Power shortages from Fukushima shut-down likely to be met by LNG
The power shortages resulting from the shut-down of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukashima Daiichi nuclear power plant due to severe damage from the earthquake...
McConnell blames Obama for high gas, oil prices
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that the President Obama is at least partially to blame for rising gas and energy prices.“He certainly has...
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