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‘New frontier’ of Antarctic lake exploration
Posted by BBC: Paul Rincon on February 16th, 2012
BBC: When a Russian drilling team reached Antarctica's Lake Vostok last week, they were able to claim a world first.
No one had previously penetrated one of the continent's sub-glacial lakes, prompting Valery Lukin from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St Petersburg to liken his team's achievement to the Moon landings in 1969.
Whatever the comparison, it represents a remarkable feat.
Over 20 years of stop-start drilling, the Russian team ground their way through 3.7km (2.3mi)...
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Stemming reactor water leak ‘urgent’
Posted by BBC: Paul Rincon on March 30th, 2011
BBC: Water clear-up 'urgent' at reactor
The focus of efforts to stabilise the situation are now focussed on reactor 2
Tepco bailout speculation grows Inside the evacuation zone Japan quake: Aid worker's diary Q&A: Fukushima alert
At this stage, the announcement by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) that it will decommission four hobbled nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan, is little more than a formality.
Their fates were more or less sealed when the company took a decision - a few days into...