Students from Fukushima Prefecture have given a symphony orchestra concert in Bangkok to thank the Thai people for their support in Japan's recovery from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Through their performance at the Siam Pic-Ganesha Theater on Friday night, 40 members ...
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Ken Saito has called on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to abolish the Chinese region's import ban on food from five prefectures in eastern Japan. "I asked the Hong Kong leader to scrap the ban based on scientific grounds," ...
Two of about 460 cars that had been parked at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant during the March 2011 nuclear disaster are unaccounted for, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. officials said Wednesday. Tepco has confirmed radioactive contamination exceeding state-set limits for some ...
Japan's stockpile of plutonium kept inside and outside the country fell slightly at the end of 2016 from a year earlier with the restart of nuclear reactors using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, the Cabinet Office said Tuesday. The decrease of around 1 ton to about ...
The first images of melted fuel from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant indicate that it did not burn through the pressure vessel of reactor 3, but exited through the holes used to insert the control rods, officials say. While the landmark robot footage ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will open new radiation monitoring posts Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture and Yonaguni Island in Okinawa to broaden its ability to detect power plant accidents overseas, sources say. The new outposts will be closer to South Korea and Taiwan, respectively, which ...
Tokyo Electric has said that a remotely controlled robot investigating the inside of reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant has finally spotted objects that could be fuel debris — a potential milestone in the effort to clean up one of the ...
Tokyo Electric Wednesday sent a submersible robot into the primary containment vessel of the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to probe for the exact location of melted fuel debris. The the first day of the operation, which lasted for about ...
Beachgoers held a hula dance in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday to celebrate the reopening of one of only three local beaches to recover from the March 2011 mega-quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. Usuiso Beach, one of the largest in the prefecture, drew about 260,000 ...
Tokyo Electric walks back its decision to dump the tritium-tainted water stored at Fukushima No. 1 plant into the ocean after the disaster reconstruction minister objects.
Tokyo Electric’s chairman riles up Fukushima fishermen by announcing that its ever-growing mountain of tritium-tainted water will be dumped into the sea.
The head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority told Tepco's top management he questions their attitude toward decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and the company's ability to resume operating its other reactors. "I feel a sense of danger," NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said ...
