The development comes a day after Arkema warned that the organic peroxides used in the site’s manufacturing process had begun to heat up after the plant lost its primary source of power and backup power from generators.
The U.N.-based International Atomic Energy Agency also criticized TEPCO, the operators of the plant, for their lack of preparedness for the devastating tsunami that hit Japan’s coast in 2011.
This aerial view shows the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) MINNEAPOLIS --- Four years after disaster struck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a United Nations
Incident took place at Chevron-operated well in southwestern Pennsylvania.
An explosion at a natural gas fracking well in Pennsylvania on Tuesday has sent one person to the hospital, left one person injured and sparked a fire that could take days to contain. According to a statement from well operator Chevron, the fire broke out at approximately 6:45
“We could see these massive 200- to 300-meter high flames just shooting out of the ground and it literally sounded like a jet plane…”
A look back at some of the fossil fuel disasters that made headlines in 2013, along with several others that went largely unnoticed.
While coal, oil, and gas are an integral part of everyday life around the world, 2013 brought a stark reminder of the inherent risk that comes with a fossil-fuel dependent world, with numerous pipeline spills, explosions, derailments, landslides, and the death of 20 coal miners in the U.S.
Investigations look into what went wrong on the rails, but another community still suffers cost of oil accidents while the industry makes billions.
A train carrying North Dakota crude oil derailed and exploded in Alabama Friday, shooting flames hundreds of feet into the air and polluting wetlands in what could be recognized as one of the most significant oil-related train disasters in the U.S.
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The veteran journalist claimed in an email that he was under federal investigation just hours before his death.
Investigative journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, 33, who died in a car-wreck earlier this June, was working on a story for Rolling Stone about CIA Director John Brennan, according to his widow Elise Jordan.
