Fukushima Plant Officials Admit Failure to Probe Cause of Faulty Filters September 17, 2021 By Mari Yamaguchi TOKYO — Officials at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have acknowledged they neglected to investigate the cause of faulty...
Atomic Energy Agency Seeks Japan Transparency on Release of Fukushima Water September 9, 2021 By Mari Yamaguchi TOKYO —Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency asked Japan on Tuesday for full and detailed information about a plan...
Japan’s Fukushima Plant to Build Undersea Tunnel to Release Nuclear Water Into Ocean August 27, 2021 By Mari Yamaguchi The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday it plans to build an undersea tunnel so that...
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...
10 Years After Disaster, Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Continues Cleanup March 2, 2021 By Aaron Sheldrick Tepco, the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima atomic plant, said it had successfully removed spent uranium fuel from a damaged...
Japan Electric Company Gets Local Approval to Restart Nuclear Reactor November 12, 2020 By Aaron Sheldrick and Yuka Obayashi Japan’s Tohoku Electric Power said on Wednesday it had received the green light from a local governor to restart one...
Japan’s Tepco to Propose Decommissioning 5 Nuclear Reactors: Media August 23, 2019 Tokyo Electric Power will submit to a municipal official on Monday a plan regarding the decommissioning of five reactors at...
Japan Aims to Beef up Nuke Safety Check Competency After Bad Review April 26, 2016 Japanese nuclear regulators said Monday they will revise laws, nearly double inspection staff and send some inspectors to the U.S....
Japan Earmarks Additional $30B for Fukushima Clean-Up, Compensation November 12, 2013 By Yoshifumi Takemoto Japan’s government is finalising plans to borrow an additional 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) to pay for compensating Fukushima evacuees...
U.S. Says Japan Signing Liability Pact Would Aid Nuclear Cleanup November 4, 2013 By Jacob Adelman Japan will receive international help with the cleanup at the Fukushima atomic station once it joins an existing treaty that...