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374 Airlift Wing/Public Affairs 12/6/2011 - YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Yokota officials are responding to a possible unexploded ordnance discovered at a construction site in front of the base fitness center here Dec. 6 at approximately 1 p.m. Officials cordoned off the area around the construction site after a suspicious object was unearthed a ...
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By Charlie Reed Stars and Stripes, December 6, 2011 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – Base officials evacuated buildings and closed roads near the fitness center Tuesday afternoon after a suspected World War II-era bomb was discovered at a nearby construction site. The “suspicious object” was unearthed around 1 p.m., according to a 374th Airlift Wing news release. ...
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By Seth Robson Stars and Stripes, November 21, 2011 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The Defense Department is preparing to release estimates of the amount of radiation that penetrated 14 areas in mainland Japan following damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant this spring, military officials announced. The plant, badly damaged when a massive earthqua ...
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Nov 17, 8:09 AM EST TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has banned shipments of rice grown near a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant for the first time after detecting radiation exceeding the legal limit. Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Thursday that a sample of rice from a farm contained 630 becquerels of cesium per kilogram. Cesium is among the radioactive mate ...
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By DAVID GUTTENFELDER and ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press, Nov 12, 7:07 AM EST OKUMA, Japan (AP) -- Two reactor buildings once painted in a cheery sky blue loom over the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Their roofs are blasted away, their crumbled concrete walls reduced to steel frames. In their shadow, plumbers, electricians and truck drivers, some ...
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has made big strides toward stabilizing its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant but is now facing another crisis - what to do with all the radioactive waste the disaster created. Goshi Hosono, the country's nuclear crisis minister, said Friday that Japan has yet to come up with a comprehensive plan for how ...
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By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Monique K. Hilley, Commander, Navy Installations Command Public Affairs WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Commander, Navy Installations Command issued an announcement reminding all personnel that the photocopying of military identification cards and common access cards (CAC) is strictly prohibited, Nov. 1. Ther ...
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By Travis J. Tritten and Chiyomi Sumida Stars and Stripes, November 1, 2011 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Hundreds of venomous toads have been found at Camp Kinser in what environmental officials say is the first infestation of a notorious pest on Okinawa’s main island. About 570 cane toads have been captured at the Marine Corps base since August, signaling a pop ...
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