Radiation levels exceeding the government-set safety limit of 0.23 microsieverts per hour have been detected on the grounds of five schools in the city of Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, the prefectural board of education said Monday. Between late April and mid-May, the board officials detected ...
The Minamisoma Municipal Government in Fukushima Prefecture said Thursday it has started remote medical care services at a city hospital using tablet computers. The hospital is located in the city’s Odaka district, where an evacuation instruction issued following the March 2011 triple meltdown at ...
Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori signaled his displeasure with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s failure to refer directly to the nuclear crisis during a speech at Saturday’s government-sponsored memorial ceremony for the March 2011 disaster. “I felt at odds (with his speech) as a Fukushima resident,” ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Monday that it will use a robot cleaner to remove sediment inside reactor 2 at its disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The move is designed to make a full-fledged investigation into the reactor by another ...
Top officials from the education ministry and the city of Yokohama met Monday to discuss how to better prevent school bullying in the wake of the harassment of a transfer student from Fukushima. Hiroyuki Yoshiie, senior vice education minister, said during the meeting with ...
An industry group has estimated costs for decontamination work at the disaster-struck Fukushima nuclear plant and compensation for nuclear damage to be around ¥8 trillion ($77.10 billion) more than the current official projection, a source said Thursday. The Federation of Electric Power Companies of ...
The government has said it aims to lift its evacuation order for the no-go zone around the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station by the end of fiscal 2021. In line with the target, it will set up reconstruction bases within the zone ...
Fukushima Prefecture’s fund to provide subsidies to residents living near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is expected to run out during fiscal 2017, sources said Tuesday. The prefectural government will hold talks with nine municipalities around the ...
An increase in thyroid cancer among children is unlikely after the disaster at the Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant four years ago, but it remains unclear exactly how much radiation children in the vicinity were exposed to, International Atomic Energy Agency said in a ...
The discovery that about 300 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a tank at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant reminds us how far the nuclear crisis is from ending.
Rather than rely on Tepco and a bare bones staff of regulators, it's time that the Japanese government consider taking control of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
The nuclear power plant problems at Fukushima remind us that one potentially positive effect of the Tohoku disaster was a rethink of Japan's energy policy.
