WASHINGTON — The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that some of the core of a stricken Japanese reactor had probably leaked from its steel pressure vessel into the bottom of the containment structure, implying that the damage was even worse than previously thought.
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A nuclear waste disposal facility at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant will be filled up in several days with radioactive floodwater diverted from near its No. 2 and 3 reactors, officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, said Monday.
The operator, known as TEPCO...
Let's hope we do not have another tsunami then !
A giant water-storage barge has arrived at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to store highly radioactive waste water from the basement of a reactor building, Kyodo news reported on Saturday.
The plant was heavily damaged by the...
The president of the power company behind Japan's nuclear disaster has stepped down in disgrace after taking responsibility for the crisis.
Masataka Shimizi was criticised for his apparent inaction during the early days of the earthquake and tsunami disaster when the Fukushima Daiichi plant...
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Tokyo, May 20: Japanese workers have entered reactor No.3 of the damaged Fukushima power plant for the first time since twin disasters hit the station more than two months ago.
On March 11, a massive earthquake and an ensuing tsunami in Japan's northeastern coast set off a nuclear crisis by...
Agony for Japan livestock farmers in nuclear crisis
By Shingo Ito (AFP) – 2 hours ago
FUKUSHIMA CITY, Japan — As more people are forced to leave their homes around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, anger is growing in a farming community forced to make the agonising decision whether to...
Defenders of nuclear power in Japan have clung to one fact since the earthquake and tsunami on March 11: the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant suffered little damage in the magnitude-9 earthquake, and it was the huge tsunami waves that knocked out the power stations’ back-up generators.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. has made misleading statements about when it will stabilize its nuclear reactors crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, said Tetsuo Ito, head of the Atomic Energy Research Institute at Kinki University in western Japan.
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Carrier NTT DoCoMo unveiled their massive phone line-up today for Japan. Among them the Windows 7 Handset stands out in an odd way. This not a Windows Phone, it literally runs Windows. To be exact it...
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said fuel in other reactors at its damaged nuclear plant may have melted, after confirming rods in the No. 1 unit had fallen from their assembly, potentially delaying plans to resolve the crisis.
“The findings at the No. 1 reactor indicate the likelihood that the...
BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhuanet) --Turning to Japan, where new evacuations have begun beyond the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, a giant barge to store radioactive water has been sent to the damaged facility to bolster stabilization efforts...
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Japanese officials are readying a new approach to stabilizing a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from the containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool.
The discovery has forced officials to abandon...
Reuters) - Japanese officials are readying a new approach to stabilizing a reactor at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami after discovering a leak from the containment vessel of enough radioactive water to fill an Olympic swimming pool.
The discovery has forced officials to...
Visual evidence now confirms what earlier was known: namely, that Tokyo Electric’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station experienced at least one core nuclear meltdown, perhaps much worse than now admitted.
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