Officials in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, attempting to promote their city as a tourist destination, received a rude shock recently when a survey showed its image was less one of natural beauty and fresh seafood and more one of being a center for nuclear power. In ...
Japan Atomic Power Co. has revealed that 10 workers were doused in radioactive coolant water during maintenance work in an auxiliary building for reactor 2 at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture. The 10 employees were not exposed to radiation, the company said ...
The next operator of the troubled Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor will need to meet a range of safety and transparency standards, including appointing outside experts to help manage the project, according to a report submitted to the science minister Friday. But the report, by a ...
Japan Atomic Power Co. on Thursday filed a formal request for nuclear regulators to conduct safety screening on the Fukui Prefecture plant.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority determined Wednesday that a reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga nuclear plant on the Sea of Japan coast in Fukui Prefecture sits directly above an active geological fault — which may force the unit to be shut down permanently. The ...
The operators of two nuclear power plants in Fukui Prefecture will scrap three old reactors.
A reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear station is sitting right above an active fault, a panel of experts under Japan's nuclear regulator has reaffirmed — a move that could force the operator to shut the unit for good. After the Nuclear Regulation Authority acknowledged last ...
The man in the black-and-white photograph wore a dark jacket with wide lapels. His hair was cut short and parted to one side. His eyes were directed toward the camera as if he were looking directly at me. I recognized him immediately: Chiune Sugihara, ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority team began a two-day re-examination Monday of Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture to follow up on its discovery last May that reactor 2 is sitting on an active fault. In a report the following July, however, Japan ...
A taxi company in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, home to a nuclear power plant, refuses service to Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Masatoshi Akimoto due to his stance against atomic power.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority may send experts to the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture to further study a geologic fault that the NRA determined in May to be active, sources said. The NRA commissioners will discuss the issue during their regular meeting Wednesday. ...
Even if the public remains overwhelmingly skeptical about nuclear safety in general, and anxious in particular about the impact of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on the environment, there is reassuring news that we can now rest easy. In ...
