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Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2014
Fukushima workers sue Tepco over unpaid hazard wages and reliance on contractors
A group of Fukushima workers on Wednesday sued Tokyo Electric Power Co. for unpaid wages in a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge to the utility and its reliance on contractors to shut down a nuclear plant destroyed by the industry's worst accident since Chernobyl.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2014
Fukushima fallout: solidarity turns to resentment in city hosting evacuees
Like many of her neighbors, Satomi Inokoshi worries that her gritty hometown is being spoiled by the newcomers and the money that have rolled into Iwaki since the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost 3½ years ago.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2014
Heavy control console falls back into Fukushima fuel pool: Tepco
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it's detected no change in radiation levels in the No. 3 reactor building of the Fukushima No. 1 power plant after a 400-kg piece of equipment slipped from a crane and fell back into a pool holding spent uranium fuel rods.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 25, 2014
The unsung heroes of Fukushima
What really went on among the workers inside the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami should be held up as an epic story with the theme of 'Man Saved in Japan.'
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 18, 2014
Europe struggles with cost of caring for its elderly nuclear plants
Europe's aging nuclear plants will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing operators many billions of dollars.

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