The head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority drew fire Friday for a comment he made Thursday saying it would be "far better" for North Korea to launch a missile at Tokyo than at a small nuclear reactor. "I don't know the level of North Korea's ...
Representatives of Tokyo Electric on Monday began visiting about 41,000 households around its idled nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture to apologize for withholding vital safety information about a facility there. The utility, which also runs the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant, is pushing to ...
If Toshiba Corp. parts ways with its embattled U.S. nuclear unit, Westinghouse Electric Co., the likely buyer may be a regional neighbor with global ambitions. Westinghouse would be a strategic fit in China or South Korea, which are developing their own reactors for export, according ...
Concerns about a potential burden on American taxpayers have emerged as Toshiba Corp. is considering the option of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its troubled U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Co., according to sources close to the matter. With the U.S. government having guaranteed an ...
Toshiba Corp. is considering asking its creditor banks to review loan terms, including the possible scrapping of a covenant requiring loan repayments in case of falls in credit ratings, according to informed sources. By changing the loan terms, the struggling electronics and machinery maker aims ...
Six years after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, recent investigations underneath the damaged reactor 2 using cameras and robots came close to identifying melted fuel rods for the first time. Experts say getting a peek inside the containment vessel ...
The Democratic Party plans to submit a bill shortly to force the decommissioning of the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, it has been learned. The aging plant is about 10 km north of meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1. The bill will require the government to ...
The latest robot attempting to find the 600 tons of nuclear fuel and debris that melted down six years ago in the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant met its end in less than a day. The scorpion-shape machine, built by Toshiba Corp., entered ...
A former nuclear worker who developed leukemia after combating the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis demanded ¥59 million (around $524,000) in damages from two utilities Thursday at his first trial hearing at the Tokyo District Court. The 42-year-old man from Fukuoka Prefecture is the first person ...
A settlement between Chugoku Electric and anti-nuclear protesters has raised the ire of activists and legal experts who claim the legal maneuver constitutes what's known as a SLAPP, or a strategic lawsuit against public participation. SLAPPs are commonly filed in the United States as a ...
The Omaha Public Power District voted Thursday to shutter the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, which is the nation's smallest nuclear power plant. The board decided it was in the best financial interest of the utility and its customers to close the plant by the end ...
The head of a Nebraska utility recommended shutting down the nation's smallest nuclear power plant by the end of the year, saying Thursday that it doesn't make economic sense to keep it open. Tim Burke, the president and CEO of the Omaha Public Power District, ...
