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NUCLEAR

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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Feb 26, 2021
Radiation criteria sow confusion for evacuees
The government has given two conflicting figures for radiation exposure levels — 20 millisieverts a year and 1 millisievert a year — triggering concern.
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 22, 2021
Road to renewed Iran nuclear deal likely to be long and bumpy
It took seven years from the summer's day in 2008 when a top U.S. diplomat first sat down with his Iranian counterpart until the two sides sealed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that aimed to keep Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 20, 2021
Government and Tepco ordered to pay ¥278 million over Fukushima crisis
The ruling overturns a lower court decision that had dismissed the state's responsibility for the 2011 nuclear crisis.
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JAPAN
Feb 20, 2021
France rejoins Japan in North Korea surveillance mission in East China Sea
This mission will be the second time that France has carried out such activities in waters near Japan since 2019.
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WORLD
Feb 20, 2021
IAEA found uranium traces at two sites Iran barred it from, sources say
The watchdog is preparing to rebuke Tehran for failing to explain the findings, possibly complicating U.S. efforts to revive nuclear diplomacy, diplomats say.
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WORLD
Feb 19, 2021
U.S. says it’s willing to meet with Iran over nuclear deal
The offer is a politically risky effort by Biden's administration to move past the standoff that developed during Trump's term.
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JAPAN
Feb 18, 2021
Nobel-winning ICAN urges Japan to attend first meeting on U.N. nuclear ban
Japan has decided not to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in consideration of its security ties with the United States.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 15, 2021
Iran drops the fig leaf of its nuclear fatwa
The decree was always more political than religious - designed to provide cover for whatever nuclear course was expedient for Tehran at any given time.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 13, 2021
U.S. says North Korea an urgent priority
North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs are an urgent priority for the United States and Washington remains committed to denuclearization of the country, the U.S. State Department said Friday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2021
Biden can break from Trump and Obama on Iran
Biden has space to pursue an Iran policy that is neither a reaction to Trump's nor a straightforward continuation of Obama's.
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JAPAN
Feb 10, 2021
Ex-Tokyo fire chief recalls tense days of Fukushima disaster response
The central government requested the Tokyo Fire Department in the early hours of March 18 to help out with the situation in Fukushima.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 10, 2021
U.S. denies delay in approaching North Korea may invite provocations
State Department spokesman Ned Price on Tuesday played down concerns that not engaging North Korea swiftly could lead Pyongyang to take provocative actions to draw the attention of the new administration of U.S. President Joe Biden.
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BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2021
Wales bids for Hitachi nuclear site, report says
The government of Wales has approached Japan's Hitachi Ltd about acquiring the Horizon nuclear power project in Anglesey and its staff, The Sunday Times reported.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 7, 2021
The risk of nuclear cataclysm is increasing
To make the global matrix even more complex, there are seven other nuclear powers to consider. Of these North Korea appears most unhinged. But China is the most ambitious.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2021
Biden’s limited options on North Korea
If North Korea's nuclear status is seen to have been normalized, it could trigger a cascade of proliferation across Northeast Asia.
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JAPAN
Feb 3, 2021
Two Hokkaido villages at the heart of race to host nuclear waste
The move has split communities between those seeking investment to stop their towns from dying, and those haunted by the 2011 Fukushima disaster, who are determined to stop the project.
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JAPAN
Feb 1, 2021
Mayor gives Japan's first approval for restart of reactors over 40 years old
Takahama Mayor Yutaka Nose reached his decision after receiving assurances from the government that it would boost revitalization projects and the town's funding.
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WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2021
Biden and Putin agree to extend New START nuclear treaty
White House officials said Biden also confronted the Kremlin leader over the poisoning of an opposition activist and a hacking of government and private computer networks in the U.S.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 25, 2021
Fukushima College robot wins top prize for nuclear decommissioning
Students in 14 teams from colleges across the country were tasked this year with developing robots to remove fuel debris, organizers said.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 23, 2021
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