Court Orders 4 Ex-Tepco Execs to Pay $95B in Damages Over Fukushima Disaster July 13, 2022 The Tokyo district court on Wednesday ordered four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to pay 13 trillion...
How Dangerous Is Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant After 10 Years of Cleanup? March 12, 2021 By Mari Yamaguchi OKUMA, Japan – A decade ago, a massive tsunami crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of its...
Tsunami-Wrecked Fukushima Nuclear Plant Begins Fuel Removal in Melted Reactor April 18, 2019 By Mari Yamaguchi The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant began removing fuel Monday [April 15] from a cooling pool at one...
6 Years After Fukushima Disaster, Robots Continue Search for Radioactive Fuel February 24, 2017 By Emi Urabe and Stephen Stapczynski The latest robot seeking to find the 600 tons of nuclear fuel and debris that melted down six years ago...
7.4 Earthquake off Coast of Fukushima Jolts Japan; Tsunami Alert Lifted November 22, 2016 By Yuka Obayashi and Elaine Lies A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan early on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a...
Typhoon Lionrock Makes Landfall in Japan, Bringing Landslides, Floods & Deaths August 31, 2016 With strong winds, drenching rain, high surf, and coastal flooding, Typhoon Lionrock made landfall in the Tohoku region of Japan...
Typhoon Lionrock Expected to Hit Japan’s Tohoku Region, Site of 2011 Tsunami August 29, 2016 By Shin Shoji Typhoon Lionrock is projected to make landfall in Japan Tuesday and is likely to strike the northern Tohoku region, the...
Japan Flooding After Record Rains Leaves 3 Dead, 23 Missing September 11, 2015 By Shoko Oda Three people died and 23 were missing in floods after record rains burst the banks of two rivers in Japan...
AIR’s Japan Quake/Tsunami Insured Loss Estimates: $15 Billion to $35 Billion March 14, 2011 Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s most recent statement, based on “currently available information, estimates that insured property losses from...