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April 10, 2013
Electric power companies will have to prepare back-up power sources and have fire trucks ready near all of their nuclear reactors. They will be required to construct sturdy...
March 08, 2013
A company in the United States trains operators of nuclear plants in how to defend them under terrorist attack.
December 29, 2012
The Abe administration will earmark several tens of billions of yen in this fiscal year’s supplementary budget as research and development costs for decommissioning reactors...
December 20, 2012
Hopes within an anxious business community that Japan's idle nuclear power stations would be rapidly restarted will almost certainly have to be placed on the backburner despite ...
July 25, 2012
It has been revealed that workers with a subcontractor of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) shielded their dosimeters with lead plates while they worked at the crippled...
May 22, 2012
The Union of Kansai Governments, comprising seven prefectures and two ordinance-designated major cities, has accepted the central government’s target of cutting power...
August 26, 2011
One of the policy issues that the public is closely watching as the Democratic Party of Japan prepares for its presidential election is energy policy, including the future of...
August 04, 2011
Five key challenges stand in the way of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s efforts to stabilize the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and eventually remove damaged fuel from ...
July 11, 2011
Four months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tokyo Electric Power Co. still has a long and winding road to go before bringing the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...
July 11, 2011
It will take several decades to decommission reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, where meltdowns occurred in three reactors, according to a draft plan compiled ...
May 06, 2011
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said May 6 that the government has asked Chubu Electric Power Co. to halt all reactors at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture until...
March 23, 2011
A Tokyo Fire Department chief leading a crew to prepare for hosing water on reactors of the hobbled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture called the operation "a race...
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