National Jan 20, 2022
Crisis-hit Fukushima town finally allows residents to stay overnight
At the end of last year, 3,613 people had certificates of residence in the designated areas, but many have already demolished their houses.
National Dec 28, 2021
Japan maps out plan for disposing of treated radioactive water from Fukushima plant
The government said in April it would discharge more than 1 million metric tons of contaminated water in stages after treatment and dilution, starting around spring 2023.
Commentary / World Nov 17, 2021
Nuclear fusion is close enough to start dreaming
by Tyler Cowen
The possibility of carbon-free energy generation raises a seldom discussed question: Just how much would it change the world if cheap and clean energy sources were truly abundant?
Commentary / World Aug 5, 2021
A nuclear crisis foreseen and predicted
by David Howell
The U.K.'s decline in nuclear power production is due to the growing obsolescence of the nation's aging power plants — and rectifying the situation is proving difficult.
Commentary / Japan | Remembering 3/11 Mar 9, 2021
Ten years after the Fukushima nuclear accident
by Yoichi Funabashi
The 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident was Japan's greatest national crisis in the postwar era. In the midst of the crisis, the then Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government secretly commissioned experts to create a worst-case scenario in which the fuel ...
Commentary / World | API Geoeconomic Briefing Dec 6, 2020
Why China is eager to promote atomic energy
by Narumi Shibata
Beijing is effectively using its technology to ink construction and hardware deals around the world, enhancing its global status as a nuclear power.
Commentary / Japan Aug 7, 2020
Plan to phase out inefficient coal plants breaks no new ground
by Takamitsu Sawa
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshi Kajiyama said in early July that the government will work out a program to phase out inefficient coal-burning thermal power plants — by either suspending or scrapping these plants. METI later followed up on the move by ...
Editorials Aug 6, 2020
While the disposal of the spent nuclear fuel is big challenge that must be tackled, it should not stop the government and the power industry from rethinking the costly fuel cycle program.
Editorials Feb 20, 2020
The government and the power industry need to proceed with a long-overdue review of the the MOX nuclear fuel cycle policy.
National Aug 15, 2019
60% of spent nuclear fuel in Japan to be stored in metal casks in the future, research shows
Over 60 percent of the some 15,200 tons of spent nuclear fuel in Japan could be stored in metal casks in the future, as the cooling pools that currently hold them are filling up, Kyodo News research showed Wednesday. The survey of utility companies' plans ...
National Jul 24, 2019
Tepco says it will decommission nuclear reactors at Fukushima No. 2 plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. will decommission the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant, its president, Tomoaki Kobayakawa, told Fukushima Gov. Masao Ochibori at a meeting Wednesday. The facility is the second nuclear plant that the utility company has decided to decommission after accepting it ...
World Jul 22, 2019
Iran to execute members of alleged CIA-trained spy network
by Golnar Motevalli
Iran, locked in a worsening political standoff with Western powers, has handed down death sentences to several nationals accused of being part of a CIA-trained spy network uncovered earlier this year, an official said on Monday. Seventeen people were arrested in all, a senior intelligence ...