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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 the ...
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 through ...
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 the ...
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 Inc.'s ...
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 of ...
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. 1 ...
