Fukushima nuclear crisis
May 22, 2013
Japan's nuclear watchdog has endorsed a panel's conclusion that a seismic fault running underneath an atomic plant in western Japan is active, making the plant's restart...
May 21, 2013
Hundreds of residents and evacuees from just outside Fukushima Prefecture say they have been unfairly denied full compensation despite high radiation levels in their area...
May 17, 2013
A significantly smaller amount of radioactive water than originally believed leaked from underground storage tanks on the grounds of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant,...
May 14, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials underestimated Fukushima fishermen’s anger and distrust toward the company whose failures continue to threaten their livelihoods.
May 13, 2013
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Local fisheries officials on May 13 withheld their consent to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s plan to release into the sea groundwater that is now...
May 12, 2013
NARAHA, Fukushima Prefecture--The 2011 accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant showed just how vulnerable the nation's reactors were to a natural disaster. Now,...
May 11, 2013
The labor ministry warned three companies to get their act together after it emerged the firms illegally sent workers to the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
May 10, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will demolish and replace the makeshift canopy covering a badly damaged reactor building at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in order to remove...
May 08, 2013
FUKUSHIMA—Two parking lots in the city of Fukushima were declared off-limits to the public on May 7 after high concentrations of radioactive cesium were detected in the...
May 08, 2013
After a series of blunders, miscalculations and unresolved problems, Tokyo Electric Power Co. adopted a new strategy to avoid a total collapse of its system for handling...
May 06, 2013
Criminal organizations are engaging in fraudulent practices amid a labor shortage and lax background checks by employers to pocket some of the trillions of yen from publicly...
May 04, 2013
ANKARA, Turkey--Japan has learned from the Fukushima disaster and will offer technology with the highest safety standards while building Turkey's second nuclear plant, Japanese ...
May 02, 2013
Japan's nuclear watchdog said it will seek to address unanswered questions about the Fukushima nuclear disaster in a report to be submitted to the Vienna-based International...
May 01, 2013
Eight electric power companies reported a combined loss of 1.59 trillion yen ($16 billion) for fiscal 2012 as the aftereffects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster continued to...
April 25, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--Officials are still struggling to dispose of some 17,000 tons of contaminated rice produced in Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear disaster there two years ago.
April 25, 2013
A Japanese court has rejected a demand that a city affected by the fallout of the country's 2011 nuclear disaster evacuate its children.
April 24, 2013
Industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi on April 23 said an idled nuclear reactor could be restarted as early as autumn, the first time a Cabinet member has mentioned a timetable...
April 24, 2013
Solidarity clearly has no place in Japan's nuclear power industry.
April 22, 2013
FUKUSHIMA—Radioactive cesium levels exceeding 100,000 becquerels per kilogram were measured in mud accumulated at the bottom of swimming pools at two high schools in and...
April 22, 2013
A U.N. nuclear watchdog team said Japan may need longer than the projected 40 years to decommission its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant and urged its operator to improve plant...