34520 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/japan-readies-robot-probe-melted-fukushima-reactor-28772372A snake-like robot designed to examine the inside of one of three melted reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is ready to begin its expedition. Assessing the damage inside the reactors is a crucial step in the decommissioning of the plant, which was badly damaged by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami.Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:11:00 +0100ABCnews-8c87cc455a7b0f060d6ff9959de1d54b20150206151100http://www.sydsvenskan.se/varlden/40-lander-i-tsunamiovning/Varningssystem och evakueringsplaner testas den här veckan i 40 länder längs Stilla havet, från Asien till Amerika. I länder som Kina, Costa Rica och Nicaragua används högtalare, sirener och skyltar för att testa hur säkerheten fungerar vid en tsunami.Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:00:00 +0100Sydsvenskan-2b5c4ff0b6dbdc55ed5bea5f52a5de0320150206150000http://www.startribune.com/world/291041151.htmlHITACHI, Japan — A snake-like robot designed to examine the inside of one of three melted reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is ready to begin its expedition. Assessing the damage inside the reactors is a crucial step in the decommissioning of the plant, which was badly damaged by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami.Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:55:00 +0100startribune-79ec6602fcf572c37146228d314e1e6f20150206145500http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/2ed88322cb7c4b33a2b9882db807be58/AS--Japan-Nuclear-Robot-ProbeHITACHI, Japan A snake-like robot designed to examine the inside of one of three melted reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is ready to begin its expedition. Assessing the damage inside the reactors is a crucial step in the decommissioning of the plant, which was badly damaged by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami.Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:55:00 +0100therepublic-917b9ca7bcabc2895a450cd39c6941dc20150206145500