Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | Post a comment

The Exelon Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Byron, Illinois, is one of 17 nuclear reactors at 10 sites in three US states. It is the nation’s largest operator of commercial nuclear power plants and third largest in the world. (Photo credit: JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images)
Exelon was working to restore operations at a nuclear reactor unit near Rockford, after a reactor went down Monday morning.
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 | Post a comment

Pieces of homes, buoys, a fishing boat and other debris from Japan is washing up on Vancouver Island’s Long Beach.
Photograph by: Christopher Pouget, Postmedia News
After the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, authorities in Canada said people living here were safe and faced no health risks from the fallout from Fukushima.
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