With the Japanese headed for what many consider to be a nuclear disaster in addition to the recent natural disasters that have plagued the country, most people are automatically stating that this is going to be another Chernobyl. However, there are key differences between the two that people sho...
A more than 40-year-old nuclear reactor in central Japan which suffered a deadly accident has resumed operation after being taken offline for a decade after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, as Japan pushes to meet its carbon emissions reduction goal. Kansai Electric Power Co. said the...
In June, Kan, who had become to be regarded as indecisive in the aftermath of the disaster, survived a no-confidence vote and a rebellion by members of his own party by promising to step down after the worst of the nuclear crisis had passed. When he resigned in August, Finance Minister...
Japanese Disaster Puts Focus On U.S. Powerolant ProblemsFollowing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor crisis in Japan, the U.S. nuclear industry is more closely scrutinizing existing facilities, and longstanding problems are placing some plants under the microscope.Johanna Knapschafer...
Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted 13 years after Fukushima disaster is shut down again Sun Nov 3, 2024 11:50 PM EST Washington (DC) Times-World Japan has grounded its V-22 Osprey fleet again after flight incident Sun Nov 3, 2024 12:20 PM EST ...
One of the reactors at the Onagawa nuclear plant, 340 kilometres (210 miles) north of Tokyo, had already been cleared for restart by regulatory authorities after meeting new safety standards imposed after the Fukushima disaster. But it became the first affected reactor to win local backing for ...
nuclear disaster核灾难;核事故 live through经历过;经受过;度过 radiation hazards辐射危害/ˌreɪdiˈeɪʃ(ə)n//ˈhæzərdz/ Intentional /ɪnˈtenʃən(ə)l/adj.故意的,蓄意的 Spread/spred/ n.扩散,蔓延; intentional spread故意传播;蓄意传播 ...
The chart below from Reuters shows the impact the Fukushima disaster has had on monthly LNG consumption since Q1 2011. Chart 1: Monthly Japanese LNG consumption (mt) The politics: Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government was elected in a landslide in Dec 2012 on a platform of...
All Japanese nuclear power plants were temporarily shut down after the 2011 Fukushimanuclear disasterfor safety checks under stricter standards. The government is pushing for them to be restarted but the process has been slow, in part because of lingering anti-nuclear sentiment among the public. Twe...
Japanese authorities are also actively gauging the extent of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in crops through acomprehensive testingregimen. There is concern that rice, the country’s traditional staple crop, could be unsafe. ...