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                    [Title] => Polluted nuclear weapons site to become tourist destination
                    [Summary] => 

Thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, home of the world's first full-sized nuclear reactor, near Richland, about 200 miles east of Seattle in south-central Washington.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-20 14:51:17 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1619737 [AuthorName] => Nicholas K. Geranios [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1421180 [Title] => Japan readies first robot to probe melted Fukushima reactor [Summary] =>

A snake-like robot designed to examine the inside of one of three melted reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is ready to begin its expedition.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-07 02:00:26 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1524808 [AuthorName] => Miki Toda [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150207/Japan-Fukushima-Robot.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1343825 [Title] => Diplomats: Iran nuke talks make little progress [Summary] =>

Talks over Iran's nuclear program are making little headway, with Tehran resisting US-led efforts to crimp activities that could be turned toward making weapons, diplomats said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-08 02:16:31 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1336118 [AuthorName] => George Jahn [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1314081 [Title] => Iran vice president says row over reactor resolved [Summary] =>

Iran will redesign its Arak heavy water reactor to greatly limit the amount of plutonium it can make, the country's vice president said yesterday, marking a major concession from the Islamic Republic in negotiations with world powers over its contested nuclear program.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-20 06:15:27 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1120534 [AuthorName] => Ali Akbar Dareini [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1268747 [Title] => Japan lacks decommissioning experts for Fukushima [Summary] =>

Japan is incapable of safely decommissioning the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant alone and must stitch together an international team for the massive undertaking, experts say, but has made only halting progress in that direction.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-16 03:49:55 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1796133 [AuthorName] => Yuri Kageyama [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1258831 [Title] => Uncertainties abound in Fukushima decommissioning [Summary] =>

It's costly, risky and dependent on technologies that have yet to be fully developed. A decades-long journey filled with unknowns lies ahead for Japan, which took a small step this week toward decommissioning its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-20 02:54:22 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488726 [AuthorName] => Mari Yamaguchi [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1201631 [Title] => Institute: NKorea nuke reactor likely restarting [Summary] =>

A recent satellite image appears to show North Korea is restarting a plutonium reactor, in a move that could raise renewed international alarm over its nuclear weapons program, a US research institute said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-12 07:02:10 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510042 [AuthorName] => Matthew Pennington [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 876441 [Title] => Iran: Uranium enrichment to be speeded up [Summary] =>

Iran will step up its uranium enrichment program by sharply increasing the number of centrifuges used to make nuclear fuel, a senior official said yesterday, in direct defiance of Western demands.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-29 02:03:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 791573 [Title] => Very high radiation, little water in Japan reactor [Summary] =>

One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination that renews doubts about the plant's stability. 

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-28 10:56:14 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 790875 [Title] => Another Japan reactor shuts down; only one left [Summary] =>

Another Japanese nuclear reactor has been taken off line for maintenance, leaving the country with only one of its 54 reactors operational following last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-26 10:36:50 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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