A government official involved in measures to combat the toxic water buildup at Fukushima No. 1 emphasized the importance of improving working conditions for the roughly 6,000 workers at the crippled nuclear plant during a recent media tour. “I sincerely felt the hardships workers ...
Tepco's task of regaining the trust of Japan's public will be just as difficult as resolving the technical challenges in the decades-long work of decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
The manager of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant admits efforts to control the radioactive water being churned out there are failing because they were planned in haste.
Around 1.1 tons of highly radioactive water overflowed from a waste container at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex while the experimental ALPS radiation-filtering system was being cleaned, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has reported. The overflow at the trouble-plagued water treatment system was noticed ...
Tepco says radiation rose to a new record in water collected from a drainage ditch at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
On his second tour of Fukushima No. 1, Prime Minister Abe recycles his "under control" claims from Buenos Aires, requests a deadline for filtering the radioactive water and urges the decommissioning of units 5 and 6.
Tepco put off a plan to create frozen soil shields around Fukushima No. 1 in 2011 after the exorbitant cost raised fears of a bad stock market reaction.
An entry point for some of the groundwater flooding the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant is found at reactor 1.
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s inexact monitoring of contaminated water stored at Fukushima No. 1 may have led the company to overstate last week’s storage tank leak, according to the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The loss of 300 metric tons that Tepco reported was based on ...
Tepco's radioactive water problems at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant seem uncontainable, ranging from leaking tanks to highly radioactive groundwater flowing to the sea.
The public must fund Tepco's effort to freeze the soil around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 reactors to prevent more groundwater from becoming radioactive, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
An estimated 360 liters of radioactive water has leaked from a desalination unit at the ruined Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday. The utility said water did not leave the complex but did not disclose its radiation level. ...
