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NUCLEAR POWER 3

Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2013
Kepco mulls Takahama plant restart
Kansai Electric hopes to apply for government permission in July to restart reactors 3 and 4 at its Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2013
New NRA safety standards may impact reactor restarts
The nuclear watchdog's planned new safety standards to deal with serious atomic crises in the event of natural disasters may affect the restart of idled reactors.
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2013
Tohoku Electric axes planned Fukushima nuclear plant
Tohoku Electric Power drops its plan to build a new nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2013
Abe ties nuke plant restarts to rebuilding
Stressing the difficulty of rebuilding the nation without nuclear power, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said during a visit to Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Sunday that he will decide whether to restart reactors after assessing their safety.
EDITORIALS
Mar 24, 2013
Accident highlights nuclear peril
The daylong power outage last week at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant suggests that Tokyo Electric Power Co. is still skewing its priorities.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2013
No. 1 plant outage fuels worries in Fukushima
Fukushima Prefecture residents expressed anxiety Monday after a power outage left three fuel storage pools without fresh cooling water for hours at the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 16, 2013
Abe purges energy board of antinuclear experts
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe removes most antinuclear researchers from a revamped post-Fukushima energy policy board that advises his government.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2013
Japan urged to send out global SOS over No. 1 plant
Two years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, the herculean task of decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is the subject of growing international involvement.
EDITORIALS
Mar 13, 2013
Kowtowing to the power companies
The Abe administration's apparent refusal to heed the lessons of the Fukushima nuclear disaster suggests it is just kowtowing to the power industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Kan cites 'God's help' in containing nuclear crisis
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan said in a videotaped message shown Monday at a symposium in New York that the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was "one step away from the worst situation" and that catastrophe was avoided with "God's help."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 10, 2013
Providing lessons on nuclear policy
FALLOUT FROM FUKUSHIMA, by Richard Broinowski. Scribe Publications, 2012, 273 pp., A$27.95 (paperback)
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2013
Japan's nuclear plants unlikely to restart operations this year: survey
Japan's atomic power plants are unlikely to be restarted by the end of the year because of the time it will take to complete safety checks under new the regulatory framework, a survey shows.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2013
Faults may be active under Aomori plant
Significant portions of major geological faults running under Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Higashidori nuclear plant in Aomori Prefecture are probably active, a Nuclear Regulation Authority panel says.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2013
Living with a nuclear N. Korea
Just as it is unwise to corner a dangerous animal, it is unwise to alienate a burgeoning nuclear power. We need to try a different approach with North Korea — one that recognizes reality, however unpleasant that reality might be.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 17, 2013
Nuclear dispute shapes fight over future of fading town
This superbly told tale about the waxing and waning fortunes of Kaminoseki town over the past four centuries presents some interesting local counterpoints to the more familiar national narrative.
EDITORIALS
Feb 5, 2013
Don't gut nuclear safety standards
New emergency safety standards planned for nuclear power plants from July are meeting resistance from a power industry worried about the costs.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2013
Active fault to scuttle Tsuruga plant
The NRA's draft report on the Tsuruga atomic power plant states that the fault under reactor 2 is probably active, effectively condemning the complex to the scrap heap.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2013
Robot facility aims to aid nation in nuclear crisis
Japan Atomic Power Co. on Wednesday opened a facility in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, that will station remote-controlled robots and dispatch them in the event of a crisis at the nation's nuclear power plants.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LIGHT GIST
Dec 25, 2012
The year in quotes: 25 windows on the way things were in 2012
It was a year dominated by Japan's spats with its most powerful neighbors, China and South Korea, over tiny specks in the sea, and by national soul-searching over nuclear power and the calamity that struck Japan in March 2011. It ended with the stunning political resurrection of the Liberal Democratic Party. In between, there were memorable faux pas on homosexuality, welfare and official sexism.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Mar 4, 2012
Taro Yamamoto: Actor in the spotlight of Japan's antinuke movement
On a rainy midwinter day, Taro Yamamoto stood with a small group of people in front of Shimokitazawa Station in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward and addressed passers-by in that artsy youth-culture hub.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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