Topic: Nuclear Power (page 4)

A man wearing a mask attends an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo September 19, 2011. (Yuriko Nakao / Reuters)

Akito Yoshikane
(Wikipedia/AP)

Justin Elliott
Israeli army, left. Right: Iranian forces (Reuters)

Nuclear Iran wouldn't be the end of the world

Jordan Michael Smith
A view of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant south of Tehran. (Raheb Homavandi / Reuters)

Michael Adler
FILE - In this May 10, 2011, file photo Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, listens to a questions from media after touring the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, N.Y. Jaczko is facing harsh critiques come from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general's report, released in June 2011, which said he intimidated staff members who disagreed with him and withheld information from members of the commission to gain their support. President Barack Obama put the former aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is Yucca's leading opponent, at the helm of the agency in May 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (AP)

Dina Cappiello
(AP)

Nelson Lampe
Fereidoun Abbasi Davani, Iran's Vice President and Head of Atomic Energy Organization, smiles during at the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety at the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, June 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) (AP)

Associated Press
This March 16, 2011 photo shows steam rising from cooling towers at Exelon Corp.'s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill. Illinois has six nuclear plants, with a total of 11 reactors, more than any other state in the U.S. in 2010. Exelon, which has acknowledged violating Illinois state groundwater standards, agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle state and county complaints over the tritium leaks in Illinois' Braidwood, Dresden and Byron sites. The NRC also sanctioned Exelon. (AP Photo/Robert Ray) (AP)

Jeff Donn
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Jeff Donn
Evacuees in protective clothing wait for a substitute bus to come beside their disabled bus, after they returned for a a brief visit to their houses in the exclusion area, in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, June 4, 2011. The tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located in the town. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Water cleanup stalled at Japan nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi
The Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Ogle County, Illinois

We're fracking it up

David Sirota

Natasha Lennard
An environmental activist sits on top of the Brandenburg Gate after Greenpeace activists fixed a radioactive sign to the Quadriga in Berlin, Sunday May 29, 2011 to protest against the nuclear power policy of German Government. (AP Photo/dapd/Michael Gottschalk) (AP)

Juergen Baetz
FILE - In this May 4, 2011 file photo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu, front, listens to Namie villagers at an evacuation center at Nihonmatsu in Fukushima prefecture. Japanese media reports Friday, May 20, 2011, said Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Shimizu will resign to take responsibility for the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power complex in northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Yuri Kageyama
A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldier works in a sewer in an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Taro, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) (AP)

Associated Press
A volunteer girl from Tokyo works to clean the debris of a house in Higashimatsushima, northern Japan Saturday, April 30, 2011. She is a member of a Tokyo's volunteer group which helps earthquake and tsunami devastated areas on weekend. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Tomoko A. Hosaka
In this April 12, 2011 photo released by the Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News, a Japanese soldier is tested for radiation exposure at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's worst nuclear disaster, northeastern Japan. The sports complex is about about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Elaine Kurtenbach, Mari Yamaguchi
Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, April 17, 2011. TEPCO, the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan, announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) (AP)

Yuri Kageyama, Shino Yuasa
Japanese police officers carry a body during a search and recovery operation for missing victims in the area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2011. In the background is part of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.(AP Photo/Hiro Komae) (AP)

Mari Yamaguchi

Is Japan's crisis really as severe as Chernobyl?

Peter Finocchiaro
Volunteers cook noodles for evacuees at an evacuation center in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, April 11, 2011, a month after an earthquake and tsunami struck the east coast. A group of 21 volunteers from Tokyo and Saitama brought Sunday 2,000 meals for about over 500 evacuees at the shelter. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) (AP)

Yuri Kageyama, Ryan Nakashima
FILE - In this undated file photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors stand in line intact in Okuma town in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Radiation has covered the area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and blanketed parts of the complex, making the job of rendering the plant safe so that it doesn't threaten public health and the environment, or "decommissioning", a bigger task than usual. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.,File) (AP)

Charles Hutzler, Mari Yamaguchi

Peter Finocchiaro
Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force gather to search the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (AP)

Mari Yamaguchi, Eugene Hoshiko
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