Economy
Fed to start tapering bond purchases this year: Bernanke
The Federal Reserve maintains its $85 billion-a-month asset purchase program, but says it could begin scaling back later this year.
National Mar 17, 2013
Prefectures dally over nuclear evacuation plans
by Eric Johnston
If a disaster were to occur at one of Japan’s 50 nuclear reactors, the most critically needed personnel in the minutes and hours immediately afterward might be bus drivers.
National Jan 29, 2013
Active fault to scuttle Tsuruga plant
by Kazuaki Nagata
The NRA's draft report on the Tsuruga atomic power plant states that the fault under reactor 2 is probably active, effectively condemning the complex to the scrap heap.
National Dec 1, 2012
Another suit filed to halt reactors at Kepco's over Oi nuclear plant
A lawsuit was filed Friday by 154 people in Fukui and other prefectures seeking to shut down the only nuclear reactors now in operation in Japan, at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s power plant in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, contending Kepco had the two units restarted ...