If the onerous rules on converting farmland to other uses were waived in Tohoku, land (often wrongly) suspected of being contaminated from the nuclear leak could be turned into fields of money-spinning solar panels.
Having slipped past a Nato base on its way to a patrol mission off the US coast, K-19's nuclear reactor springs a leak.
Besides, there are fears that a radiation leak from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will reach Tokyo, and warnings of another massive earthquake.
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This was after the leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant resulted in other nuclear plants being shut, forcing it to rely on traditional thermal power stations to produce electricity.
The latest concern in the region is a radiation leak from the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.
The government announced that the explosion at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant is not causing radiation to leak, as had been widely feared and suspected.
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Quite a few officially confirmed nuclear incidents occurred in the past few years in Japan, some of them caused nuclear-polluted gas and liquids to leak.
Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.
The exercise, with a command centre in Poundbury, Dorchester, will test their response to the scenario of a radioactive leak from a submarine with a damaged nuclear reactor core.
Used fuel that has been cooled in a spent fuel pool for at least five years can be put into a container called a cask and surrounded with inert gas, providing leak-tight containment, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
If disaster strikes and a LFTR springs a leak, the spill cools to an inert lump of rock, chemically locking all the nuclear material inside.
Shut-down reactors include two at the beleaguered San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California, which hasn't produced electricity since January 2012, when a tiny radiation leak led to the discovery of damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
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