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Workers To Enter Japan Reactor For 1st Time Since Blast

05.05.2011 - Workers were set to enter the No.1 reactor building at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday for the first time since an explosion ripped its roof off a day...

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Fukushima Daiichi: What's Going On At Japan's Damaged Nuclear Power Plant?

28.04.2011 - Japanese engineers are struggling to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was seriously damaged by the March 11...

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Japan March Petchem Naphtha Imports Fall 10% Year over Year

13.04.2011 - Japan's naphtha imports for the petrochemical sector fell 10% in March from the same month a year earlier, government figures showed on Wednesday, reflecting the impact of last...

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World Health Organization: Japan Nuclear Accident No Worse

13.04.2011 - An increase in the severity level of Japan's nuclear accident does not mean the public health risk is any worse or that the disaster resembles Chernobyl in 1986, global expert...

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Mitsubishi Chem To Restart Quake-Shut Naphtha Crackers

08.04.2011 - Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical said on Friday that it aims to restart the No.2 naphtha cracker at its Kashima plant, with capacity to produce 453,000 tons per year of ethylene, around...

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Japan's Maruzen Restarts Quake-Shut Naphtha Cracker

04.04.2011 - Japan's Maruzen Petrochemical said on Monday it began restarting its 480,000 tons per year naphtha cracker in Chiba, east of Tokyo, earlier in the day, nearly a month after it was...

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GE Unlikely To Face Liability in Japanese Nuclear Crisis

04.04.2011 - The Japanese nuclear crisis has created a public-relations headache for General Electric, but the company so far has escaped any legal fallout, and many experts expect it will...

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Fukushima Daiichi: What is Going on at Japan's Damaged Nuclear Reactor?

31.03.2011 - Japanese engineers are struggling to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was seriously damaged by a March 11...