Japan Earthquake Rattles World's Largest Nuclear Power PlantstaffEnvironment News Service
Following the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan's Shika and the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plants experienced spillovers of cooling water from spent fuel pools, according to local media reports. At the Shika power plant, the spillovers of cooling water led to an emergency shutdown of co...
The oil appears to have then entered the gutter through rainfall, the company added. Hokuriku Electric is still analysing the situation. The plant's key external power supplies, monitoring facilities and cooling systems are functioning normally. Japanese village reduced to rubble by earthquake Meanwhile...
VIENNA, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday said most of the nuclear power plants in Japan have either not been affected by the massive earthquake, or safely shut down, showing the effectiveness of safety measures. I...
After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tōhoku region, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) conducted inspections and recommended significant safety upgrades to the country’s nuclear reactors. Today, only nine reactor units are fully operational, while seven more...
Japan is getting ready to re-start its nuclear power plants. Three-and-a-half years after an earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear disaster, inspectors have clear two reactors to go back online at the Sendai plant. But that is not easing fears. Operators of Japan's Sendai Nuclear Plant ...
Hiroshi Yoshii2, Satoshi Mizuno3 & Hiroaki Shiraishi1 In 2011, 2012, and 2013, in the intertidal zones of eastern Japan, we investigated the ecological effects of the severe accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant that accompanied the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsun...
Moreover, Japan has so far dumped approximately 23,400 cubic meters of nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima plant into the ocean since August. The fourth round of discharge is scheduled to commence in late February. The plan...
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. An earthquake-triggered tsunami engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing core meltdowns in units one to three and leading to the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. ...
February 2, 2017 -TEPCO reports atmospheric readings from inside nuclear reactor plant No. 2. as high as 530 sieverts per hour. This is the highest since the 2011 meltdown. February 13, 2021 -A7.1 magnitude earthquake off the east coast of Japanis an aftershock of the 2011 quake, accordi...