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Fire on nuclear sub smolders six hours on. NEW: Fire on USS Miami at shipyard in Maine was put out early ThursdayNEW: Seven were injured in the submarine blazeThe sub's reactor was not affected, and no weapons were aboard, officials say (CNN) -- Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a nuclear submarine early Thursday at a U.S. Navy shipyard in Maine after battling it for hours, according to a statement released by the shipyard. Seven people were injured and were treated either on the scene or at "a local medical facility," the statement from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard read. Among those injured were three firefighters from the shipyard, two ship crew members and two civilian firefighters, who assisted the Navy's fire crew. Vacuum cleaner blamed for fire on nuclear submarine The USS Miami's reactor was not operating at any time the fire broke out and remained unaffected and stable throughout, said Capt.

Bryant Fuller, commander for the shipyard, which is in Kittery, Maine. Fukushima’s doses tallied. YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/epa/Corbis Around 170 of Fukushima’s workers have a slightly elevated risk of cancer due to their radiation exposure. Few people will develop cancer as a consequence of being exposed to the radioactive material that spewed from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last year — and those who do will never know for sure what caused their disease. These conclusions are based on two comprehensive, independent assessments of the radiation doses received by Japanese citizens, as well as by the thousands of workers who battled to bring the shattered nuclear reactors under control.

The first report, seen exclusively by Nature, was produced by a subcommittee of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) in Vienna, and covers a wide swathe of issues related to all aspects of the accident. The UNSCEAR committee’s analyses show that 167 workers at the plant received radiation doses that slightly raise their risk of developing cancer. HS42_1F. In Japan, the lights are already starting to go out... - Green Living - Environment. With all 54 reactors shut down or destroyed, the authorities could be forced to demand a reduction in power usage of 20 per cent in western Japan, said a government draft document this week, an area that includes the huge Osaka region – home to nearly nine million people.

The last of the reactors went offline for routine maintenance on 5 May, triggering the start of a debate over the country's nuclear future. Nuclear power accounted for about a third of Japan's energy generation before last year's triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Businesses say they face a summer slump unless the country's utilities crank out more electricity.

The head of the Japan Business Federation, Hiromasa Yonekura, has repeatedly predicted that the $5tn (£3.1trn) economy could "collapse" without the nuclear plants. A local government in Fukui Prefecture this week became the first to vote for a plant restart since the Fukushima crisis began. Japanese Tsunami Debris Is Increasingly Washing Ashore in Alaska. The Future of Nuclear Energy An update using 2009/2010 Data.

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