National Jul 7, 2014
Japanese nuclear regulators to delay interim report on restart of Kyushu plant
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will delay unveiling an interim report on restarting two reactors at a plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, sources say.
National Jul 5, 2014
Nuclear safety expenditures top ¥2 trillion
The cost of taking nuclear safety measures at the nation’s 10 major power companies is ¥2.2 trillion and climbing.
Economy Jul 2, 2014
Singapore eases import ban on Fukushima products
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 ...
Corporate Jun 26, 2014
Tepco shrugs off activist investors
by Kazuaki Nagata
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 ...
National Jun 18, 2014
Operator of Hamaoka nuclear plant says no active faults below site
The operator of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture said Wednesday its investigation found no active geological faults under or around the site, which was forced to shut down in 2011 after the plant’s operation was deemed risky. Chubu Electric Power Co. ...
National Jun 14, 2014
Photog returns home to chronicle Fukushima
by Akiko Yamaguchi
As a photographer whose roots are in Fukushima, Tadao Mitome feels a duty to continue capturing images of the area to document the effects of the nuclear disaster triggered by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. On March 11 this year, the third ...
National Jun 7, 2014
Japan failed to report 640 kg of nuclear fuel to IAEA
Japan "inappropriately omitted" 640 kg of unused plutonium in its annual nuclear fuel reports to the U.N. nuclear watchdog in 2012 and 2013.
National Jun 7, 2014
Tepco gifted ¥120 million to university course run by NRA nominee
Tokyo Electric donated \120 million to a University of Tokyo course taught by a professor who has just been nominated as a Nuclear Regulation Authority commissioner.
National Jun 5, 2014
772 Fukushima No. 1 interviews slated for release
by Reiji Yoshida
The government says it will release the transcripts of interviews with 772 people involved in the Fukushima meltdowns but might redact some parts for secrecy reasons.
Economy May 29, 2014
Farmers find a new cash crop in solar power field
by Aya Takada and Chisaki Watanabe
The campaign to boost renewable power supplies since the Fukushima nuclear disaster is producing some unlikely winners: vegetable farmers. Makoto Takazawa and his father Yukio earned ¥1.7 million last fiscal year selling electricity from solar panels that hang in a giant canopy above their ...
Economy May 28, 2014
Lawmakers to push Abe on Russia gas link
Diet members are renewing the push for a ¥600 billion natural gas pipeline from Russia, which last week signed a supply deal with China, in a bid to cut energy costs after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. A group of 33 lawmakers is ...
National May 20, 2014
Government silent on report Fukushima No. 1 workers fled during crisis
by Reiji Yoshida and Kazuaki Nagata
The government is refusing to comment on a media report that Masao Yoshida, the now-deceased chief of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant at the time of the meltdowns, was quoted as saying most of the plant’s workers evacuated the site despite of his ...