nuclear fuel
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...
April 05, 2013
Workers at Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed spent nuclear fuel housed in a common storage pool at the Fukushima power plant and moved it to a temporary storage depot on the...
March 20, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said March 19 it has uncovered a second instance of fuel rods coming into contact with each other at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in...
December 18, 2012
Workers are nowhere close to determining the state of melted fuel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a year after the government declared the damaged reactors were in a...
December 13, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Dec. 12 a bent water rod caused two fuel rods to come into contact inside a fuel rod assembly stored in a spent fuel storage pool for the No. 5...
December 04, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Dec. 3 it will start removing nuclear fuel from a precarious storage pool at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in mid-November next year, ...
August 29, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it found no significant abnormalities in a bundle of unused nuclear fuel rods removed from the storage pool of the No. 4 reactor of the crippled...
August 25, 2012
The industry ministry plans to amend legislation to allow for "direct disposal" of spent nuclear fuel, a move away from the nation’s problem-plagued goal of creating a full...
July 31, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, plans to inspect the top floor of the No. 1 reactor building using a balloon equipped...
June 27, 2012
The soon-to-be-abolished Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency gave the OK on June 26 for work to continue on the construction of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho,...
March 27, 2012
Water was only 60 centimeters deep in a reactor containment vessel at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a fraction of what was previously assumed, Tokyo Electric...
March 07, 2012
THREE MILE ISLAND, Pennsylvania--When engineers inserted a camera probe into the stricken Unit 2 reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant here more than three...
February 04, 2012
An experiment to convert radioactive liquid waste into an easier-to-dispose-of glassy substance at a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has been delayed because preliminary...
October 02, 2011
In a nightmare scenario, fuel will melt at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and large amounts of radioactive materials will be released if the water supply to the...
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