No. 2 reactor
December 12, 2012
The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is grappling to locate the source of a leak of highly radioactive water in the crippled No. 2 reactor, and will continue ...
April 19, 2012
A robot failed on April 18 to locate a leak of radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant’s No. 2 reactor.
February 14, 2012
Off-the-chart temperature readings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's damaged No. 2 reactor are due to a faulty thermometer and no cause for alarm, according to plant ...
February 12, 2012
The temperature in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have risen to 82 degrees on Feb. 12, a situation that could force the government to revoke the...
July 01, 2011
Kansai Electric Power Co. this month will seek government approval to continue operating a reactor beyond July 2012, which marks its 40th year in service at the Mihama nuclear...
June 20, 2011
Radiation levels in the atmosphere were unchanged on June 20 after the double doors of the No. 2 reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were opened.
June 17, 2011
Despite the orders of Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, venting of reactors and injections of water did not proceed smoothly in the early stage of ...
May 24, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has belatedly admitted that most nuclear fuel likely melted and dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessels of two other reactors at the Fukushima No....
May 23, 2011
Heat exchangers will be installed to cool spent fuel rod storage pools at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to a report submitted May 21 by the plant operator, ...
May 18, 2011
A whiteboard in the central control room for the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was quickly filled with short memos in the hours after the...
May 17, 2011
Q: What does this talk of a "meltdown" at the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant mean?
May 04, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. is installing six ventilators designed to lower radiation levels and allow for work inside a contaminated reactor building at the crippled Fukushima No....
April 25, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. started the unprecedented and potentially risky measure of allowing water to flood the containment vessels of three troubled reactors at the Fukushima...
April 25, 2011
High levels of radiation were detected on the grounds of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant one month after hydrogen explosions spewed radioactive materials, according to...
April 23, 2011
The level of radioactivity from contaminated water that leaked into the sea from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is close to the highest levels ever recorded.
April 21, 2011
Highly contaminated water with a radioactivity level estimated at 4,700 trillion becquerels leaked into the sea apparently from the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...
April 20, 2011
Work began in earnest on April 19 to transfer some 25,000 tons of highly radioactive water, found in a trench and in the basement of the turbine building at the Fukushima No. 1 ...
April 19, 2011
High levels of radiation discovered at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could disrupt Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s timeline for a cold shutdown of the crippled facility,...
April 15, 2011
The groundwater radiation level at the No. 2 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is 17 times higher than it was a week ago, Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced...
April 11, 2011
A Tokyo Fire Department chief leading a crew to spray water on reactors of the hobbled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture called the operation “a race against time...