Debris cleanup work by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have led to the contamination of rice crops in nearby areas, agriculture ministry officials said Monday. Radioactive cesium exceeding the government limit of 100 becquerels per kilogram was ...
The government has postponed plans to lift the evacuation advisory for the village of Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, which was tainted by radiation during the triple core meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in March 2011. The government had proposed lifting the advisory ...
Minor tsunami hit Tohoku’s coastline early Saturday, including in a city near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, after a strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific coast. There were no immediate reports of damage, however, and authorities lifted all advisories roughly two hours later. ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will delay unveiling an interim report on restarting two reactors at a plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, sources say.
The cost of taking nuclear safety measures at the nation’s 10 major power companies is ¥2.2 trillion and climbing.
Toshiba Corp. is close to striking a deal to build a nuclear reactor for a Bulgarian state-owned utility firm for about ¥500 billion, company sources said Thursday. The Japanese firm plans to build the reactor with output capacity of around 1.1 million kilowatts through ...
Keen to restart nuclear power plants three years after the Fukushima disaster, authorities may face an additional hurdle in securing approval — coming up with a cogent evacuation plan in the event of new accidents. The problem has come into focus as procedures for ...
There remains one final myth regarding nuclear power plants in Japan: Namely, that in the absence of a major accident, a normally operating nuclear power plant is safe.
Singapore eased at the end of June its import ban on food from Fukushima Prefecture, home to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s disaster-crippled nuclear power plant, Japan’s Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry has said. The government of Singapore approved the restart of imports of food ...
Farmers in Fukushima try to convince skeptical visitors that their crops are safe from radiation. Blood trickles from the nose of a reporter who visits the area. These are two story lines found in manga — those ubiquitous comics for adults and teens — ...
Tokyo Electric can't figure out whether its new groundwater bypass operation is reducing the amount of radioactive water the plant churns out on a daily basis.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. shot down a bevy of anti-nuclear policy proposals lobbed up by irate shareholders at its annual meeting Thursday in Tokyo and vowed instead to restart its idled reactors. Some 2,150 shareholders attended the meeting in Chiyoda Ward. Outside, anti-nuclear activists ...
