Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
June 19, 2013
Amid calls for her resignation and growing outrage in Fukushima Prefecture, the ruling party’s policy chief on June 19 apologized for saying the Fukushima nuclear disaster...
June 18, 2013
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said June 17 that the earthquake of March 11, 2011, was tentatively not responsible for damage to key equipment used to cool a reactor in the...
June 18, 2013
KOBE--The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s policy chief came under fire on June 18 for saying the Fukushima nuclear disaster has not directly led to any deaths in her...
June 18, 2013
Honda Motor Co. has developed a nimble robot that can reach into nooks and crannies of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant as part of the process to decommission...
June 17, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. suspended a test run of a water decontamination system at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on June 16 after a suspected leak of highly...
June 16, 2013
With the government facing difficulty in finding disposal sites, municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture are being unofficially notified that the goal for completion of...
June 12, 2013
OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--A canopy has been completed over a heavily damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in preparation for removing the...
June 11, 2013
Noriko Abe is demanding answers over the death of her 98-year-old father-in-law who was forced to take a 230-kilometer bus trip lasting more than eight hours in the confusion...
June 11, 2013
IITATE, Fukushima Prefecture--A sculpture of Hachiko, the Akita Inu dog famous for his unswerving loyalty, has been sent to Iitate to encourage residents still struggling with...
June 11, 2013
The extraction of melted nuclear fuel rod debris at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could begin in 2020, or 18 months earlier than originally anticipated, the central...
June 11, 2013
OSAKA--Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his government have abandoned a nuclear-free policy, largely ignored anti-nuclear protests and are accelerating efforts to restart idled...
June 10, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said June 9 that it has transferred all 24,000 tons of highly radioactive water from leaky underground tanks to surface tanks at the crippled Fukushima ...
June 06, 2013
Family members of a farmer who killed himself after the Fukushima nuclear disaster lashed out at Tokyo Electric Power Co. on June 5 for refusing to apologize for his death.
June 06, 2013
Time is running out for the more than 10,000 evacuees from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster to seek damage compensation from plant operator Tokyo Electric Power ...
June 06, 2013
Health experts are at odds on whether radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident led to an unexpectedly high occurrence rate of thyroid gland cancer among children in...
June 06, 2013
Radiation levels have dropped by 40 percent on average in each of the four types of evacuation zones around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government's...
June 06, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has disclosed yet another case of radioactive water leaking from an aboveground steel storage tank at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
June 06, 2013
SAN DIEGO--If he could turn the clock back, Naoto Kan says he would never have promoted the export of Japanese nuclear plant technology.
June 05, 2013
Workers miscalculated pressure levels inside a reactor during the early stages of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, leading to a reduction in cooling water and a possible increase...
June 05, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has detected radioactive cesium in groundwater previously deemed clean at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, dealing a blow to plans to dump...