radioactive water
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 08, 2013
After a series of blunders, miscalculations and unresolved problems, Tokyo Electric Power Co. adopted a new strategy to avoid a total collapse of its system for handling...
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 18, 2013
A U.N. nuclear watchdog team has begun inspecting Japan's crippled nuclear plant, which has been plagued with radioactive water leaks and other glitches more than two years it...
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 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 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.
February 21, 2013
Preparations for the mammoth task of decommissioning crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are being stymied by continued high levels of radiation from...
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 05, 2012
Japanese researchers said they have developed a fabric that can efficiently absorb radioactive cesium, a potential weapon in the battle to clean up areas contaminated by the...
December 01, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. dawdled on measures to prevent leaks of highly radioactive water during the Fukushima nuclear crisis, despite the plant manager’s warning that “we...
July 25, 2012
A new device capable of purifying 500 tons of radioactive water a day will go into operation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant by the end of the year. After purification,...
February 10, 2012
Weeds were the culprit that poked holes in vinyl chloride hoses for transporting radioactive water under treatment at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo...
December 10, 2011
Water containing radioactive materials leaked inside a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan, but was contained and did not escape into the environment, the Nuclear and...
December 09, 2011
After a strong protest from fisheries cooperatives, Tokyo Electric Power Co. will postpone the planned release of radioactive water into the sea from the stricken Fukushima No. ...
December 07, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Dec. 6 that 150 liters of water containing strontium leaked from a water treatment facility in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and flowed...
November 22, 2011
Radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has reached the international date line, about 4,000 kilometers east of Japan in the Pacific Ocean,...
October 19, 2011
Three tons of radioactive water leaked from an absorption unit within a treatment facility that purifies highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power...
September 22, 2011
Groundwater flowing into the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is straining Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s efforts to control water levels and prevent radiation leaks at the...
August 25, 2011
The amount of highly radioactive water on the premises of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant decreased 320 tons during the latest seven-day period, Tokyo Electric Power Co....