Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has revealed that it suspects that two male employees in their 40s were contaminated inside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Kyodo news reported on Monday.The men are believed to have inhaled a small amount of radioactive material through th...
The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea after Japanese officials said the two earlier releases ended smoothly.
Fukushima plant releases treated water into Pacific The Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was disabled after the 2011 earthquake, began this week releasing treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, a move which is drawing major criticism from environmental activists. ...
The government and plant operator say the release is an unavoidable part of its decommissioning and will be safely carried out, but the plan faces opposition in and outside Japan.
Using the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant incident as its focal point, this paper employs the concepts of generic frames and news domestication to study US media portrayal of the disaster. Specifically, it uses the framing theory on the coverage of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant ...
Japanese officials are expected to consider releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean between late August and early September, Kyodo News reported. An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety review has concluded in July, noting...
TOKYO, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Warning that there are possible risks of collapse of the No. 1 reactor of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) recently ordered plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to urgently assess the risks ...
Fukushima nuclear power plant March 11th marks one year since the devastating Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and associated nuclear incidents, and we’ve asked several experts to give an update on everything from the current situation on the ground to future nuclear power plant designs, ...
Four Japanese companies are planning to jointly build a 7.1MW biomass power plant at Aizu in the country's northeast Fukushima prefecture, taking advantage of the country's feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme. The Aizu Komorebi power plant is scheduled to start commercial operations in December 2024. ...
December 18 (SeeNews) - Japanese renewables firm Fukushima Power announced on Wednesday it will develop a 28-MW solar project in Tomioka town, Fukushima Prefecture.