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March 18, 2011 6:04 PM
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Mine Fire Threatens Physics Laboratory
A fire in the shaft of an old mine threatens the sole U.S. underground laboratory. Smoke detectors went off at 9 p.m. Thursday at the Soudan Underground Mine State...
European Space Missions to Go It Alone After NASA Yanks Support
European space scientists are scrambling to rethink—and redesign—massive potential missions after it was confirmed that NASA, whose budget is in disarray, won't contribute significant funding to any of the...
March 18, 2011 2:11 PM
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Quake Question #10: Why Are Spent Rods So Deadly?
Readers ask: Does the life of the rods affect their radioactive capabilities? Like, if they were getting near the end of their effective life, are they more or less...
March 18, 2011 1:34 PM
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India's Nuclear Chief: Reactor Review But No Shutdown
In response to the earthquake-triggered accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, India's prime minister has asked for a full safety audit of India's 20 operating nuclear reactors....
March 18, 2011 1:23 PM
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Japan: Water Remains in Fuel Pool of Reactor #4
TOKYO—The Japanese government says that there is water covering the fuel rods in the spent-fuel pool of reactor #4 at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. On Wednesday, U.S....
March 18, 2011 12:07 PM
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Atomic Agency Chief: Nuclear Plants Harmed By Disaster
TOKYO—As Japan's nuclear power plant crisis entered its seventh day, Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said it would be "unrealistic to think this...
March 17, 2011 6:40 PM
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The Worst Case: What If the Water Ran Dry in the Japanese Reactors?
What if cooling in one or more of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant were lost? Richard Lester, chair of the department of nuclear science and engineering at...
March 17, 2011 6:17 PM
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Quake Question #9: Why Didn't Reactors Melt Down Immediately?
Readers ask: By what mechanism is a reactor shut down (to replace spent fuel, for instance)? Did that mechanism fail after the quake? If not, why are the cores...
High-Energy Physics Experiments in Japan Weather the Crises
During an earthquake, tsunami, or nuclear meltdown, the safest place to be is in a mine. So says Stuart Freedman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's spokesperson for the KamLAND neutrino...
March 17, 2011 5:39 PM
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How Much Fuel Is at Risk at Fukushima?
The maximum hazard from a crippled nuclear power plant depends on how much radioactive fuel is on site, both in the reactors and in the storage pools. And the...
March 17, 2011 5:31 PM
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Trackers Seek More Data on the Release of Radioactive Material
As teams of Japanese engineers scramble to prevent a disastrous release of radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear plant, scientists are already preparing for a challenge that may unfold...
March 17, 2011 3:46 PM
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Little Protection for Those on the Front Lines
With fears mounting about the spread of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plants, the people at highest risk are the ones trying hardest to contain it. The New York...
March 17, 2011 2:33 PM
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Guilty Plea in Murder of Yale Grad Student
Former Yale University laboratory worker Raymond Clark pleaded guilty today to murdering 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le in 2009, Bloomberg reports: Clark entered his plea today before Connecticut Superior...
March 17, 2011 1:38 PM
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Rendezvous With an Earthquake for a Hiroshima Native
Ritsuko Komaki, 67, grew up in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing there. Her experience led her to become a radiation oncologist, and she now works at M.D. Anderson Cancer...
March 16, 2011 7:16 PM
Contention Over Risk of Fire From Spent Fuel Pools
Among the worst case scenarios at the Fukushima plant is that the spent nuclear fuel, which sits in essentially open cooling pools near the six nuclear reactors, could catch...
March 16, 2011 5:54 PM
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Chernobyl Can Teach Japan About Limiting Radiation Exposure
As workers struggle with Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, the potential risk that more radiation will be released remains unknown. But the unfolding events since Friday's earthquake have...
March 16, 2011 5:40 PM
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Quake Question #8: What Impact Will the Radiation Have on Marine Life?
Readers ask: Since it seems the radiation will mainly head out to sea, what will its effects be on ocean life? Science answers: Effects on marine life should be...
March 16, 2011 5:31 PM
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Quake Question #7: What Prevents a Spent Fuel Rods Fire?
Readers ask: What's to stop the reactors' "spent" fuel rods from open-air burning during an uncontrolled nuclear fire? I understand these fuel rods are kept on top of the...
March 16, 2011 4:05 PM
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Quake Question #6: Is Climate Change Responsible?
Readers ask: Is there a link between climate change and increases in global seismic activity? If so, could this be due to redistribution of water over the planet's surface...
March 16, 2011 3:51 PM
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Group Launches Early-Warning System for Threats to Global Heritage Sites
The city of Nineveh in Iraq was one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world, but in the past 5 years urban sprawl has gobbled the...
March 16, 2011 3:34 PM
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Quake Question #5: What Effect Will the Radiation Have on the Japanese?
Readers ask: What is the highest intensity of radiation measured so far? What affect will the radiation have on the people of Japan? How many people could it kill?...
March 16, 2011 2:54 PM
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Quake Question #4: What Is the Impact on Wildlife?
Readers ask: Although the safety of the people of Japan is our main priority, what ramifications has the catastrophe in Japan had on wildlife? Especially due to the numerous...
March 16, 2011 1:58 PM
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Fukushima Radiation Update
TOKYO—At a press briefing today Keiichi Nakagawa, a radiologist at University of Tokyo Hospital, predicted that the radiation emanating from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant will have a...
March 16, 2011 1:18 PM
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Quake Question #3: Could the Japan Quake Trigger Other Quakes Across the Globe?
Readers ask: What is the probability of a magnitude-7 or higher aftershock in Japan? Could the Japan quake lead to other quakes across the globe? Are we having more...
March 16, 2011 1:09 PM
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U.K. Science Minister Calls Libel Reforms 'Good News'
Scientific discourse may enjoy greater legal protection in the United Kingdom, if the provisions in a draft Defamation Bill become law. The proposals, unveiled yesterday by U.K. Justice Secretary...
March 16, 2011 12:52 PM
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Quake Question #2: Are Underground Tsunami Shelters a Good Idea?
Readers ask: Would it be possible to build underground emergency tsunami shelters that would be insulated from the earthquakes that would surely precede the wave? Science answers: This is...
March 16, 2011 12:41 PM
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Quake Question #1: How Far Will the Radiation Spread?
Readers ask: How long will the radiation be in the reactor area after it is finally contained? Will the radiation spread across the globe via air or sea? Science...
March 16, 2011 11:06 AM
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Blood Sport: Anti-Doping Strategy Comes Into Its Own
Last week, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), considered the world authority in sporting disputes, ruled in favor of the International Cycling Union in its doping case against...
March 15, 2011 6:09 PM
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Fukushima's Radiation So Far
At the Fukushima reactor I, the Japanese government reports, workers have been in the vicinity of radiation levels in the past day as high as 400 millisieverts per hour....
March 15, 2011 5:31 PM
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Southeast Asia Screening for Radiation in Japanese Food Exports
As the world waits to hear whether radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima reactor explosions have been released into the air, ecologists are becoming anxious about the environmental effects—and not...
March 15, 2011 5:15 PM
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Comparing Earthquakes, Explained
How can one compare the magnitude-9.0 earthquake in Japan with the magnitude-6.3 quake that struck New Zealand? News stories about the disaster in Japan bandy around two sorts of...
March 15, 2011 2:15 PM
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NIH Scientists Warming to New Translational Center
Despite concerns previously expressed by many extramural scientists, National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus researchers who showed up yesterday to hear Director Francis Collins unveil a proposed new center...
March 15, 2011 1:55 PM
Crisis in Japan: Submit Your Questions
Science's news staff fields queries about earthquake and its aftermath
Japanese Engineers Offer Quake Data
The Coastal Engineering Committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers has set up a Web page to share information and post modeling and computational results of studies of...
ITER Fusion Project Fills Top Management Slot
Osamu Motojima, the new director-general of the ITER fusion reactor project, has put in place the final piece in the senior tier of his new management structure for the...
Three Questions About Japan's Nuclear Plants
Japanese officials are weighing a set of difficult challenges in trying to contain the nuclear crisis within the Fukushima power complex. In addition to the extremely powerful earthquake, the...
Roundup: Global Reaction to Nuclear Crisis in Japan
The ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan is causing political effects around the world, particularly in Europe, with several countries putting on hold plans to build new reactors or let...
March 14, 2011 2:35 PM
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African Astronomers Find New Use for Discarded Satellite Dishes
A radio astronomer's global map of instruments that work together to survey the heavens would show a big gap over Africa. Astronomers in South Africa hope to fill in...
March 14, 2011 11:22 AM
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Could Amateur Taxonomists Catalog Earth's Fauna?
Taxonomy has a reputation as one of science's least glamorous fields, and experts have been sounding an alarm over declining funding and a global dearth of practitioners. With extinctions...
March 11, 2011 6:37 PM
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Japan Earthquake Holds Lessons, and Warnings, for Pacific Northwest
For Japan, perched on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," a major earthquake is no great surprise. The country's building codes and earthquake alert systems are among the most...
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