Fukushima no. 1 nuclear power plant
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 17, 2013
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 uprooted the lives of friends and family of Haruna Shiraiwa in this coastal city in northeastern Japan.
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 13, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 10th part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with how pets and livestock fared in the ...
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 12, 2013
A confident Liberal Democratic Party will continue moving toward a return to operations at nuclear power plants around the nation by including the goal in its campaign platform ...
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
Chaos reigned during the early phase of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and people who fled the area have no idea how much radiation they were exposed to before the evacuation. ...
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 10, 2013
Japan’s current account surplus dramatically plummeted in fiscal 2012 on the back of increased fossil fuel costs with most of the nation's nuclear reactors shut down, marking ...
May 08, 2013
Editor's note: This is the eighth part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with how pets and livestock fared in...
May 07, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--Takashi Sato arrives at Onami Elementary School around 7:30 a.m., changes his navy uniform for a sky blue sweat suit, and starts his daily routine surrounded by...
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 06, 2013
Editor's note: This is the seventh part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with how pets and livestock fared in...
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
Editor's note: This is the fifth part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with how pets and livestock fared in...
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...