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Surrounded by corn fields, bicycle routes and a nature reserve, the eight huge cooling towers of the Dukovany nuclear power plant have dominated the Czech countryside near the Austrian border for almost three decades.

The company said its facilities consumed almost 260 million watts — about a quarter of the output of a nuclear power plant.

Executives at the Japanese utility behind a nuclear power plant sent into crisis by a tsunami apologized to investors at a raucous annual shareholders' meeting.

The executives were repeatedly interrupted with heckles, yells and questions of outrage.

The operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes.

The operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan announced a plan Sunday to bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes.

Asian markets were mostly lower Thursday after Portugal became the latest European country to plead for a bailout, but Japan enjoyed a mild rally as it appeared to gain the upper hand in the struggle to contain a toxic radiation leak at a nuclear power plant.

Despite a plea from the developers to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the company has reportedly blocked a radiation detecting app from the App Store.

One might assume it was an app designed to help those affected by the Japan earthquake and nuclear power plant disasters, but it's not an app designed to monitor nuclear radiation, but instead cell phone radiation.

March 15 -- Bloomberg reporter Stuart Biggs speaks about Japan's nuclear crisis after Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s stricken nuclear power plant was today rocked by two further explosions and a fire as workers struggled to avert the risk of a meltdown.

A transformer exploded at the Indian Point nuclear power plant Sunday night, leading to an automatic emergency shutdown of one of its reactors, authorities said.

No one was injured and no radioactive materials leaked.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan says Vietnam has chosen Japan as a partner to mine rare earth metals and help build the Communist country's second nuclear power plant.