An object appearing to be unexploded ordnance was found at disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a site that used to be a Japanese military airfield during WWII.
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 ...
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 decommissioning process at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant gets a big boost after fuel debris is located at the bottom of reactor 3.
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 ...
On July 16, 2007, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the world's largest nuclear power complex at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa — a site that the government and Tepco had insisted was seismically safe.
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 ...
A state-backed entity is close to completing a plan for decommissioning the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, detailing for the first time how it hopes to extract fuel debris from three reactors.
The court and the prosecution should do their utmost to clarify the responsibility of the Tepco executives for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster.
