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Tepco to consider decommissioning Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant
The facility is located about 12 kilometers south of the Fukushima No. 1 plant, which suffered meltdowns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and could technically be restarted.
If Niigata gubernatorial race was a litmus test, Abe and Nikai passed
In a tight contest with implications for Abe’s political fortunes and nuclear power policy, Hideyo Hanazumi beat Chikako Ikeda, who had the support of five major opposition parties.
About that tritiated water: Who will decide and when?
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's storage tanks already hold 850,000 tons of contaminated water, the amount is rising daily and space is running out.
Japanese joint venture to enter world's largest battery business in Australia
A Japanese joint venture said Tuesday it will join a solar power generation business in Australia involving one of the world's largest storage batteries. JERA Co. will join hands with Fluence Energy LLC, a U.S.-German joint venture with energy storage technology, and Australian renewable-energy developer ...
Four days before the Great East Japan Earthquake, nuclear regulators were stunned by an estimate that a massive tsunami could hit Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 power plant, a Tepco employee testified Wednesday. At a meeting on March 7, 2011, the ...
Seven years on, radioactive water at Fukushima plant still flowing into ocean, study finds
More than seven years after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, radioactive water is continuing to flow into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled No. 1 plant at a rate of around 2 billion becquerels a day, a study has found. The amount of leaking ...
Estimated cost of Fukushima disaster might balloon to ¥218 billion
The new estimate reflects a December 2016 Cabinet decision to raise the upper limit on financial assistance for Tokyo Electric to ¥13.5 trillion from ¥9 trillion.
About 200 U.S. residents have filed a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and a U.S. firm, seeking at least $1 billion (about ¥106 billion) to cover medical expenses related to radiation exposure suffered during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the utility ...
Tepco and other utilities eye joint nuclear plant project in Aomori Prefecture
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and other major utilities will start talks this spring on jointly building and operating a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, sources close to the matter said Friday. The plan involves Tepco's Higashidori nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture, ...
Third ruling orders government and Tepco to pay damages to Fukushima disaster evacuees
The Kyoto District Court on Thursday ordered the state and the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to pay damages to evacuees over the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. The ruling is the fifth among approximately 30 similar lawsuits, and the third in ...
Fukushima No. 1 cleanup continues but radioactive water, and rumors, also prove toxic
Seven years have passed since the core meltdowns occurred in March 2011 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which shocked the world and fractured the local community. During a media tour last month, a hazard map of the crippled nuclear plant was shown ...
Rakuten to tap Tepco infrastructure to help launch mobile carrier business
Rakuten Inc. said Tuesday that it will team up with Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. for its planned mobile phone business. The major cybermall operator will aim to cut costs for the new business, including for base stations, by utilizing existing Tepco facilities under ...
