Japan Nuclear Crisis to Trigger Huge Civil Damage Claims
Japan’s nuclear crisis is likely to lead to one of the country’s largest and most complex ever set of claims for civil damages, handing a huge bill to the fiscally strained government and debt-laden...
View ArticleJapan Nuclear Plant Operator Admits Some Safety Measures Neglected
The operator of the disaster-struck Japanese nuclear power plant has acknowledged that the company long neglected safety measures intended to avoid and manage severe accidents while it was obsessed...
View ArticleJapan Experts Say New Nuclear Safety Plan too Lax
Experts who investigated Japan’s nuclear crisis said Monday that a watchdog’s oversight of the crippled plant’s operator is still too lax, amid renewed public fear over a recent spate of safety...
View ArticleFukushima Plant Steps Closer to Fuel Rod Removal
More than two years after Japan’s nuclear disaster, damaged vehicles, twisted metal and other debris remains strewn about the Fukushima plant. Scores of black and gray pipes and hoses cover the ground...
View ArticleJapan Formally OKs New Nuclear Safety Requirements
Japan’s nuclear watchdog formally approved a set of new safety requirements for atomic power plants on Wednesday, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster...
View ArticleTepco’s Shareholders Decline to Pursue GE for Fukushima Claims
Tokyo Electric Power Co. shareholders rejected a proposal to look into pursuing claims for compensation against companies that supplied parts for the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, including General...
View ArticleJapan Set to Restart Reactors After Nuclear Crisis
Japan is moving a step closer to restarting nuclear reactors as utilities are set to ask for safety inspections at their idled reactors, the clearest sign of a return to nuclear energy nearly two and a...
View ArticleIce Wall Idea Studied to Halt Radioactive Water in Japan: Energy
Turning soil into virtual permafrost with refrigerated coolant piped through the earth was first used in the 1860s to shore up coal mines. One hundred and fifty years on, it’s the newest idea for...
View ArticleDespite Fukushima, IAEA Sees Global Progress on Nuclear Safety
Japan may be suffering persistent problems with its wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, but the U.N. atomic agency says “considerable progress” has been made globally in the past year to strengthen...
View ArticleHigh Radiation Spreads at Ruined Fukushima Plant, Japan Vows Aid
High radiation levels are spreading at the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said on Monday, and the Japanese government prepared to offer more funding and oversight to try to contain the...
View ArticleTepco’s Claim Radiation Leaks Confined to Coast Called ‘Silly’
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s claim that radioactive water leaking into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant is confined to the coast doesn’t make scientific sense, according to a U.S....
View ArticleRadiation Levels Near Japan’s Damaged Fukushima Reactor Hit Two-Year High
Radiation levels in seawater just outside one of the damaged Fukushima reactors spiked this week to the highest level in two years, the operator of the crippled Japanese nuclear plant said on Thursday....
View ArticleJapan Readies Additional $30B for Fukushima Clean-Up
Japan’s government is finalising plans to borrow an additional 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) to pay for compensating Fukushima evacuees and cleaning up the area outside the wrecked nuclear plant, said...
View ArticleJapan Experts Say New Nuclear Safety Plan too Lax
Experts who investigated Japan’s nuclear crisis said Monday that a watchdog’s oversight of the crippled plant’s operator is still too lax, amid renewed public fear over a recent spate of safety...
View ArticleFukushima Plant Steps Closer to Fuel Rod Removal
More than two years after Japan’s nuclear disaster, damaged vehicles, twisted metal and other debris remains strewn about the Fukushima plant. Scores of black and gray pipes and hoses cover the ground...
View ArticleJapan Formally OKs New Nuclear Safety Requirements
Japan’s nuclear watchdog formally approved a set of new safety requirements for atomic power plants on Wednesday, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster...
View ArticleTepco’s Shareholders Decline to Pursue GE for Fukushima Claims
Tokyo Electric Power Co. shareholders rejected a proposal to look into pursuing claims for compensation against companies that supplied parts for the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, including General...
View ArticleJapan Set to Restart Reactors After Nuclear Crisis
Japan is moving a step closer to restarting nuclear reactors as utilities are set to ask for safety inspections at their idled reactors, the clearest sign of a return to nuclear energy nearly two and a...
View ArticleIce Wall Idea Studied to Halt Radioactive Water in Japan: Energy
Turning soil into virtual permafrost with refrigerated coolant piped through the earth was first used in the 1860s to shore up coal mines. One hundred and fifty years on, it’s the newest idea for...
View ArticleDespite Fukushima, IAEA Sees Global Progress on Nuclear Safety
Japan may be suffering persistent problems with its wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, but the U.N. atomic agency says “considerable progress” has been made globally in the past year to strengthen...
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