The shooting spree that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded and six others dead accounted for 57% of headlines from Jan. 10-16, and the earthquake and tsunami that caused a rupture in a Japanese nuclear plant matched that level from March 14-20.
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At the Tokai nuclear power plant, some 100 kilometers south of the Fukushima plant, a high level of radiation was observed.
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The plant had drawn down the level of expatriates in 2012 out of concern that there wouldn't be sufficient drivers for trips to and from the airport, which took more than an hour and were seen as dangerous enough that each bus was accompanied by an armed escort involving at least six vehicles filled with Algerian soldiers.
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Onagawa's plant was high enough above sea level to survive the tsunami without enormous damage.
It isn't known if operator error played a role, as it did three decades ago at Three Mile Island, but it's clear the earthquake exceeded the level for which the plant was designed.
Critics of the nuclear power industry say the plant is unsafe to operate at any power level and should be shut down permanently and dismantled.
The International Atomic Energy Agency reported today that the level of radioactivity at the Daiichi plant has fallen sharply from a rate of 1, 190 millirem per hour to 60 millirem per hour with a span of 6 hours.
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Duke Energy spokeswoman Rita Sipe said Duke Energy had detected trace radioactive elements, likely to have originated from Japan's Fukushima plant, in North Carolina and South Carolina -- but at a level "far below" reporting requirements.
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Most of the plant will be maintained in a 'quiescent state', which means functioning at a low level, until then.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co, which operates the plant, later allowed workers to re-enter after establishing there was no fire and that radiation level in the area had not risen.
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