TOKYO - Radioactive water accumulating in tanks at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will be released into the sea in two years after it is treated, Japan's government said Tuesday in a decision long delayed by safety concerns and protests. Cabinet ministers endorse...
Japan’s nuclear regulator approved plans by the operator of the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant to release treated radioactive wastewater into the sea next year, saying the environmental hazards are negligible. The plan was submitted in December by Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO), based o...
The water will first be diluted to reduce the concentration of radioactive material 40 times, according to some of the reports. The release is scheduled to begin in 2022 when the tanks currently storing the water will be full up, although the government has yet to make the of...
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Tokyo on Tuesday unveiled a half-billion dollar plan to stem radioactive water leaks at Fukushima, creating a wall of ice underneath the stricken plant, as the government elbowed the operator aside. Acknowledging global concerns over the "haphazard" management of the crisis by Tokyo Electric Power...
“All those ‘authors’,” he says, “leave it uncertain as to whose work it really is. If a question arises, who do you address it to? Evasion of responsibility is written into the very system” — which helps explain, he adds, why Japan’s roster of currently active professors ...
According to a regular check at Tsuruga on Monday, the density of xenon-133 gas and that of iodine-133 had risen inside the primary coolant water in one of the plant's two nuclear reactors, the press release said. "We have determined that there may have been leakage from the fuel assemb...
- A system to decontaminate highly radioactive water has gone into service at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The system is considered key to dealing with the build-up of contaminated water that is hampering work to bring the reactors under control. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO,...
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