Japan's disaster fuels debate on nuclear power plants here

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Futaba Kosei Hospital patients who might have been exposed to radiation are carried into the compound of Fukushima Gender Equality Centre in Nihonmatsu Sunday morning after being evacuated from the hospital near the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. They were waiting for evacuation when an explosion of Unit 1 reactor of the complex blew off the top part of its walls on Saturday, one day after a strong earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan.

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Exelon nuclear power plants in Illinois, like the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station, are protected against earthquake, floods and other disasters, Chairman and CEO John Rowe said.

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Exelon nuclear power plants in Illinois, like the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station, are protected against earthquake, floods and other disasters, chairman and CEO John Rowe said.

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Exelon nuclear power plants in Illinois, like the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station, are protected against earthquake, floods and other disasters, chairman and CEO John Rowe said.

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An accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pa., was the first major setback for nuclear energy.

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The closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant looms over abandoned houses in the town of Pripyat, which sits inside a contamination zone. A 1986 nuclear catastrophe caused dozens of immediate fatalities and other lingering health problems.

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