Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
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...
April 20, 2013
Fourteen workers treated radioactive water leaking at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant without wearing personal dosimeters as required, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said...
April 19, 2013
Editor's note: This is the final part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to...
April 17, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 20th part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to the ...
April 15, 2013
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency on April 15 began reviewing the decommissioning process at Japan's crippled nuclear plant, where new problems are triggering growing safety...
April 15, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 19th part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to the ...
April 15, 2013
Their demand: The right to live free of radiation. The plaintiffs who started the legal battle: 14 children.
April 13, 2013
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--The cherry blossoms are in full bloom on the campus of Odaka Technical High School, but the school bell has been silent, the gymnasium empty, ...
April 12, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on April 11 confirmed another leak at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, this time from a pipe being used to transfer contaminated water ...
April 12, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 18th part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to the ...
April 11, 2013
For the next several years at least, Japan will probably have very limited ability to generate electricity through nuclear power.
April 11, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has decided to stop using all the underground tanks to store radioactive water at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
April 11, 2013
Radioactive cesium has not been detected in 99 percent of people in Fukushima Prefecture, host of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, and neighboring Ibaraki Prefecture ...
April 10, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 17th part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to the ...
April 09, 2013
In a further blow to the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said April 9 that a third underground toxic water...
April 09, 2013
The Lower House established a committee to monitor nuclear power administration, but the overtly pro-nuclear panel was immediately criticized as long overdue and doubts were...
April 09, 2013
A citizens' group that set up three tents in front of a ministry office building that have served as a rallying point for anti-nuclear demonstrators said April 8 it will fight...
April 09, 2013
For the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster started, the government will not ask people to save electricity this summer because utilities are expected to have...
April 09, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has acknowledged that radioactive water leaked from two underground storage tanks at the utility’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
April 08, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. suspects two leaks of radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant were caused by shoddy workmanship to install devices to detect such...