Weekend. Officials have received permission from the Nuclear Regulation authority to use several underground pools. They have a Storage Capacity of about 9,000 tons. Managers stop using several of the pools in april after leaks were discovered. They now say they have no other option but to use three of the other pools. The company has been storing tainted rain water in hundreds of above ground tanks at the plant. And in the basement in a turbine building. But they are now almost all full. Nuclear regulators in japan are criticizing a recent report by the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. Managers of tepco submitted the document outlining the Safety Measures in place at their nuclear facilities. Members of the Nuclear Regulation authority met in tokyo to discuss the report. It details how tepco is dealing with radioactive water leaks and other problems at Fukushima Daiichi. One called the report unconvincing and expressed doubts whether the utility would be able to tackl
This contradicts reports that obama had told merkel he didnt know. Citing a u. S. Intelligence worker involved in the spying operation, he said nsa chief Keith Alexander informed obama in person about the surveillance in 2010. The paper quoted the source as saying that obama did not stop the operation back then, but let it continue. The article said they increased the surveillance to include the contents of merkels Text Messages. The agency then started tapping a new, supposedly bugproof cell phone she acquired this past summer. Media reports say obama apologized to merkel when she called him on wednesday. The president told merkel he would have stopped the bugging had he known about it. Specs spokespersons for the nsa have denied the allegations. The agency said in a statement in beijing on sunday that nsa chief alexander never had talks with president obama about its spying activities on people, including merkel in 2010. A german weekly magazine has disclosed the details of allegatio
The march 2011 disaster in japan have published a magazine in english as a thank you to overseas volunteers who he clean up. Leaders of china and india have patched up their differences and theyve agreed to cooperate on defense. The indian Prime Minister singh and chinas premiere signed the accord in beijing. We move forward in negotiationses to a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement to the india china boundary question. Translator the china india relationship is one of the most important and potentially fruitful relationships in the 21st century. In other talks singh said they would promote Chinese Investment in india and agree to reduce indias deficit with china. China will build an Industrial Park in india. The border dispute has strained ties for more than half a century. Earlier this year the military of the two asian giants had a threeweek standoff around the frontier. Philippine leaders concluded that china had nothing to do with the the recent discovery on uninha
With the recent Chen Yongzhou scandal, many have called for an “investigation” into the investigative reporting business.I apply the term “investigative reporters” to those that often wade into the deeper, uncharted waters of the media’s realm. I have a hard time thinking of myself as an investigative reporter and I have always felt like a more appropriate description would be
Shanghai investor Wang Weihua’s final microblog post October 12 was brief and ominous: “The police are coming.”Three days later, Wang’s family said he’d been taken into custody by police officers who traveled more than 3,600 kilometers to Wang’s Shanghai home from Urumqi, a city in China’s far west.Police gave the family a document saying Wang was detained on charges of