Fukushima nuclear crisis
February 21, 2013
Seven young intellectuals are seeking support for their proposal to preserve the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as a tourist site carrying a cautionary message for...
February 20, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 11th part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the different responses between ...
February 19, 2013
Geological fault lines that run beneath Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Higashidori nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture are almost certainly active, according to an expert...
February 19, 2013
Japan Atomic Power Co. has agreed to donate about 700 million yen ($7.5 million) in fiscal 2013 to the city of Tsuruga for the construction of a road between the city's center...
February 18, 2013
Editor's note: This is the tenth part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the different responses...
February 16, 2013
Toshiba Corp. has shown off heavy machinery it developed to clean up radioactive materials using dry ice particles.
February 16, 2013
A Fukushima prefectural assembly chairman stormed out of a Liberal Democratic Party meeting on Feb. 15 after the discussion turned toward the possible restart of idle nuclear...
February 16, 2013
Proposed sweeping reforms of the electric power industry would deprive utilities of so much revenue that they would be incapable of operating nuclear facilities they own now or ...
February 15, 2013
Editor's note: This is the ninth part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the different responses...
February 14, 2013
Researchers have announced safe radiation doses in thyroid glands for the vast majority of residents living around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. But their studies are...
February 14, 2013
The Nuclear Regulation Authority is to inspect a building at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant that may contain evidence proving whether it was the powerful tsunami or ...
February 13, 2013
Editor's note: This is the eighth part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the different responses...
February 13, 2013
Despite the title, the paintings on display in "Thinking of Fukushima--downwind villages" are not of villagers whose lives were uprooted by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
February 12, 2013
Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., denied an organization-wide effort to interfere with a Diet investigation into the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, saying ...
February 11, 2013
Editor's note: This is the seventh part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the different responses...
February 10, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has been caught in another lie in its apology on its website for misleading a Diet panel that was investigating the 2011 accident at its Fukushima No....
February 09, 2013
The Environment Ministry has admitted danger pay has not been reaching some laborers entitled to a hefty bonus for their work on decontamination projects near the Fukushima No. ...
February 08, 2013
Editor's note: This is the sixth part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the different responses...
February 08, 2013
The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has admitted dislodging broken equipment weighing 1.5 tons and sending it falling further into a pool where fragile nuclear...
February 08, 2013
In a startling admission, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said a series of vital safety checks supposedly carried out at the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Fukui...