A state-backed entity is close to completing a plan for decommissioning the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, detailing for the first time how it hopes to extract fuel debris from three reactors.
The Diet passed a bill Wednesday requiring Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to put aside extra funds to decommission its crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, as the state seeks to gain more financial control over the utility. Under the revised law, the state-backed Nuclear ...
About 610 tons of spent nuclear fuel stored at seven of the 17 reactors in Japan scheduled to be decommissioned have no place to be buried, it was learned Sunday, threatening to hold up the decommissioning process. If the question of where to transfer the ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday approved decommissioning plans for five aging reactors at four plants, the first such approvals since a government regulation banning the operation of reactors beyond 40 years was implemented in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster. While the utilities said it ...
A private think tank estimates that the Fukushima disaster will end up costing triple the government’s latest estimate.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday postponed a decision on whether to approve decommissioning plans for five old reactors, raising questions about whether deadlines for scrapping the units can be met. The NRA is expected to eventually green-light the decommissioning plans, but will for now ...
The head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant said Thursday that more creativity is needed to develop robots that can locate and assess the condition of the reactors' melted fuel rods. A robot sent inside the primary containment vessel of reactor ...
Estimates of the combined cost of dealing with the ongoing situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have reached ¥21.5 trillion.
The cost of the Fukushima disaster will likely surpass ¥20 trillion, and the government wants to raise electricity rates to pay for it, sources say.
The cost of scrapping the damaged nuclear plant is set to rise to hundreds of billions of yen annually from the previously projected ¥80 billion a year.
Tepco on Tuesday began dismantling the temporary shroud covering the wrecked reactor 1 building at the Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co. installed the cover in October 2011 to keep radioactive materials from dispersing. Workers used a crane Tuesday to remove one of ...
In another setback, the decommissioning plan for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is revised because the schedule for removing the spent fuel rods is too tight.
