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Two days after powerful Typhoon Faxai hit, 430,000 homes in Chiba Prefecture still without power

National Sep 11, 2019

Two days after powerful Typhoon Faxai hit, 430,000 homes in Chiba Prefecture still without power

Hundreds of thousands of households near Tokyo were still without power and water Wednesday amid intense heat, after powerful Typhoon Faxai ripped through the metropolitan area earlier in the week.

Footage from reactor 3 may force rewrite of Fukushima road map, officials say

National Jul 30, 2017

Footage from reactor 3 may force rewrite of Fukushima road map, officials say

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 ...

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