BEACONSFIELD, Australia Two Australian miners who survived for two weeks in a kennel-size cage trapped about a kilometre underground walked out of the Beaconsfield Gold Mine early Tuesday and punched the air, freed by rescue crews drilling round-the-clock by hand. [Brant Webb] and [Todd Russell] were buried after a small earthquake April 25 trapped the safety cage they were working in under tonnes of rock. Miner Larry Knight, 44, was killed, and Tuesday's rescue came hours before Knight's family planned to hold his funeral. Starting at 4:47 a.m., the men crept one at a time out the cage and into the escape tunnel. Rescuers carried them through the tunnel on stretchers. A medical check of the men, still underground, found them in good health, able to stand on the elevator carrying them ...
You cannot have nuclear power without public trust," said Jan Beranek, nuclear energy project leader for the Greenpeace environmentalist group. "And you cannot trust people who don't tell you the truth or who build nuclear plants in earthquake zones. The sprawling, seven-reactor Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant -- the world's largest in capacity -- suffered in Monday's 6.8-magnitude quake. A fire charred an electrical transformer, planks toppled into a pool of spent nuclear fuel and some 400 barrels of atomic waste tipped over. "It is impossible to guarantee 100 per cent safety," conceded Yumi Shimoda, 40, a marketing consultant in Tokyo. "But what scares me is the fact that they tried to cover up the truth in order to claim safety."
... in the house owned in Haiti until the earthquake in January 2010. [9] The IAD accepted Mr. Fabien...
... nation already reeling from the worst earthquake in its recorded history that Japan is not about to... of not being forthcoming about nuclear safety issues, particularly those surrounding earthquake-...
... systems that underpin our prosperity and safety is diminishing. The constellation of risks arising... also includes a study of the Japanese earthquake, and a snapshot of companies that proved most resi...
Like, for instance, when you're watching the CBC/Doc Zone dooms-umentary Shock/Wave: Surviving North America's Biggest Disaster (tonight at 8 on CBC), which predicts that all those idyllic oceanside communities along the continent's West Coast will someday be flattened and washed away by a tsunami the size of the one that devastated Indonesia in December 2004. It'll dwarf 1906 (the infamous San Francisco earthquake)," marine biologist Chris Goldfinger says of the undersea earthquake and subsequent wave surge that would cause the promised coastal calamity. "And (Hurricane) Katrina. It will be many dozens of Katrinas, all at once. "If we don't start talking about it, if we don't start thinking about it, we're certainly never going to be prepared for it," says oceanographer Eddie Bernard.
... about earthquake/tsunami preparedness and safety. "If we don't start talking about it, if we don't ...
[Stephen Harper] asserted there's no risk of a nuclear accident and dismissed the commission as a bunch of Liberal hacks who don't care about the health of Canadians whose medical tests have been cancelled due to the isotopes shortage. CNSC director general Barclay Howden refused to comment on Harper's characterization of the commission as a repository for Liberal cronies, but said the commission's decisions are based on advice of "professional engineers and scientists who work to the highest standards of nuclear safety and professional conduct. Howden said the commission's sole mandate is to ensure nuclear safety in Canada. In this case, he said the Chalk River reactor's main cooling pumps must have power at all times, "under any conditions, regardless of whether it's earthquake, fire...
...A year after the earthquake, Haiti is still plagued by piles of rubble, few ne... birthright of over a million people to the safety and dignity of a home--whether owned, rented or sh...
[Alberto Rozas] had no idea which way was up until he looked through his apartment's shattered window and spotted light -- "the light of the full moon. The earthquake and the fall were one single, horrible thing," Rozas told The Associated Press on Sunday. "My TV fell on top of me and suddenly I saw stars shooting across my window," he said. [Abel Torres] and his roommate stacked furniture to reach that window -- now a skylight -- and escaped without clothes, coated in dust.
... daughter, Fernanda, clambered up and to safety with nothing more than a few cuts, scrapes and bru...
By now, the nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ont., is churning away again thanks to an act of Parliament that overruled concerns from Canada's nuclear safety watchdog about the plant's emergency backup systems.
... worried about what might happen if an earthquake or other major disaster strikes the plant and knoc...
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