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The operator of Japan s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Wednesday admitted it had found another leak of radioactive water, the latest episode in a growing catalogue of mishaps. HT Image Tokyo Electric Power TEPCO , said one of its workers spotted drips coming from a tank used to store radioactive water at the site on Japan s tsunami-wrecked coast. Water was leaking at the rate of one drop every three or four seconds, the company said, adding that absorbent material had been placed under the leak and workers were trying to stem the flow. An increasing volume of wa
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stanley cup board earlier this year. On Monday TEPCO announced it had detected radioactive cesium in groundwater samples taken from the site, reversing an earlier announcement that the water was harmless. The company had been intending to release the groundwater into the sea but suspended the pl
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It s official. Indian students are better than their British counterparts in schools, even in subjects like English. HT Image Government figures from the Department for Children, Schools and Families has revealed Indian and Chinese students get top grades than British children in every school subject at the secondary examination. Thirty-one per cent of Indian students and 55 per cent of Chinese pupils who took General Certificate of School Education exams last year achieved an A, according to the new figures released. Among white British pupils the figure was 16 per cent. For black African pupils it was 14 per cent, for Pakistani 13 per cent and black Caribbean 8 per cent, leading newspaper the Daily Mail reported. The figures also show that, as well as forging ahead in maths, Indian and Chinese pupils outperform white British pupils in English. The Chinese pupils were most likely to get As, wi
stanley cup th 29 per cent getting the top mark in English, compared with 21 per cent of Indians, 15 per cent of white British, 11 per cent of black Africans and 9 per cent of Pakistanis. Significant differences in achievement are al
adidas originals so seen in geography, history, chemistry, biology, physics, French and religious education, the statistics have revealed. Bristol University researchers suggested the attainment differences were down to contrasting attitudes to education between ethnic minority and white communities. Dr Deborah Wilson pointed to high aspira
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