Toshiba Corp. unveiled on Thursday a submersible robot to take live video of reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant to confirm whether fuel debris is sitting at the bottom of a pool of radioactive water inside. The location and condition of ...
Some Japanese farmers have begun looking to biogas technology to allow them to turn their properties into power plants, giving them a way to transform animal and other waste into profits. Biogas is a combustible substance consisting mainly of methane that can be produced ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday dismissed calls for the disaster reconstruction minister to resign after he made remarks implying that the nuclear refugees from Fukushima Prefecture should be left to fend for themselves. At a Tuesday news conference, the minister, Masahiro Imamura, defended ...
A survey finds over 60 percent of the major companies entering the electric power industry object to a plan to have them shoulder some compensation costs related to the Fukushima disaster.
Japan on Friday lifted its evacuation orders for the village of Iitate and two other areas that had been enforced due to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station. The move came six years after Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...
Ken Isono has an insatiable appetite for going to different places, learning about them and connecting with local people. It was when he traveled to over 30 countries as a backpacker in his final year of university that he became aware of the gravity ...
While a recent investigation found what may be melted nuclear fuel rods in reactor No. 2 containment vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, that information isn’t nearly enough to devise an effective method for removing it, the chief of the plant told reporters ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and Chubu Electric Power Co. are considering integrating their thermal power generation business in fiscal 2018, a report said Monday. Tepco, an embattled utility facing the gigantic cost of dealing with the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. ...
Fukushima peaches are making inroads into Southeast Asian markets in what prefectural officials see as a model case of recovery in its farm produce. Fukushima grabbed the top share of Japanese peach exports to three Southeast Asian countries last year — 73.9 percent in ...
A renewed attempt to survey reactor 2 at the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant failed Thursday when the latest robot probe became obstructed. The robot was inserted into the primary containment vessel at around 7:50 a.m. to approach the metal grating directly ...
The industry ministry is planning to demand that new power industry entrants shoulder a portion of the compensation payments stemming from the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and to do the same for any future nuclear accidents, sources said Wednesday. The ...
Taiwan is considering phasing out restrictions on the import of food products from five Japanese prefectures banned in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima reactor meltdowns. Deputy Council of Agriculture Minister Chen Chi-chung told Kyodo News that the administration is working toward the direction ...
