nuclear crisis
November 15, 2012
Plans are under way to erect a partially sealed cover over a third reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, to contain radioactive debris during decommissioning...
October 30, 2012
Fukushima Prefecture, site of last year's nuclear disaster, will establish a research base there with the International Atomic Energy Agency to study decontamination and...
May 10, 2012
In the days after the Great East Japan Earthquake last year, the Cabinet Office was drawing up plans to evacuate 500,000 people in a “worst-case scenario” at the Fukushima...
April 11, 2012
A government-affiliated nuclear research agency awarded contracts worth 7.1 billion yen ($87.47 million) to 16 companies that employ retired agency officials, showing that...
January 30, 2012
Shiga Prefecture will widen the evacuation zone set by the central government if a nuclear accident occurs in neighboring Fukui Prefecture, home to the most reactors in the...
January 07, 2012
In a worst-case scenario, the central government would have requested the evacuation of Tokyo and everyone within a 250-kilometer radius of the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...
November 29, 2011
When Sean Dowty got accepted into the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, he had some anxiety when he learned he would be teaching students in the quake-ravaged zone in...
October 23, 2011
Find a geothermal reservoir of steam and hot water in places such as volcanic zones where magma rises to comparatively shallow depths, and a dig a hole. Use the steam that...
October 23, 2011
Even though Japan is sitting on the world's third largest reserve of geothermal resources, after the United States and Indonesia, this power source always remained in the...
October 23, 2011
This summer, six expert staff members from Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources visited the Hatchobaru geothermal power plant, at the foot of the Kuju mountain...
October 23, 2011
We had been driving for an hour, and no matter how far we went a pipeline filled with steam for power generation kept hugging the mountainside.
October 23, 2011
Amid a black volcanic plain, a pale glow radiates from what looks like a resort island. About a 20-minute drive from Iceland's international airport, Blue Lagoon is a...
October 23, 2011
Japan might be deficient in oil and gas, but it has one resource in quantities to rival the rest of the world: geothermal energy. Since the accident at the Fukushima No, 1...
August 19, 2011
When novelist Eimi Yamada was in primary school, she mentally grouped her teachers into "good teachers" and "bad teachers." The former, she explained in an essay, recognized...
August 12, 2011
At one time, Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, had become isolated because the distribution of goods was halted due to radiation fears from the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 ...
August 06, 2011
The novelist Sakyo Komatsu, who died July 26 at age 80, first came across the term "genshi bakudan" (atom bomb) during World War II in a magazine for children. The bomb...
August 06, 2011
Can mankind live with nuclear power? This summer, 66 years after an atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, we are once again faced with this momentous and difficult question.
August 06, 2011
HIROSHIMA--Four experts made their cases for nuclear disarmament at the International Symposium for Peace 2011, held in Hiroshima on July 31.
July 30, 2011
Living near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Hisayuki Sakagami might have once been seen as a bit odd, generating his family's electricity through solar power and small ...
July 29, 2011
The words "science and technology" are commonly used together, but there is actually a fundamental difference between "science" on the one hand and the "technology" that...