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Japan reactor back to full power after nuke shutdown
Jul 9th, 2012
A nuclear reactor in western Japan began full operations on Monday, the first restart since the country shut down its atomic stations in the wake of last year's crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. (Source: AFP) -
TOKYO (Reuters) - A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assassinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of hauntings. Abe has not moved into the prime minister's official residence for five months since he too... [Full Article]
By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100, which had raced to its highest level in nearly 13 years this week, fell sharply for the second straight session on Friday as a decline at major bank HSBC hit the market. Some traders felt the pull-back could accelerate in June although many still believed the stock market's longer-term rising... [Full Article]
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Tongaat Hulett reported a 15 percent rise in full-year earnings on Friday as sugar production rose and said it expected further growth in the year ahead. The agri-processing company said diluted headline earnings per share for the year to end-March totalled 942.3 cents from 819.4 cents a year ago. Total ... [Full Article]
BOSTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. power utilities say they face constant cyber attacks on critical systems, according to a report by two Democratic lawmakers amid warnings from the Obama administration that foreign hackers are seeking to attack the electric grid. Congressmen Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Henry Waxman of California disclosed thei... [Full Article]
TOKYO (AP) - Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to safely decommission it. (Source: Associated Press... [Full Article]
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