The legitimacy and safety of Japan's ocean discharge plan have long been questioned by the international community, and people in Fukushima have pointed out many times that since the nuclear plant accident, TEPCO's handling of the aftermath has been highly problematic, Wang said.↳ People are ...
New Fukushima Leak Puts Spotlight on Plant Operator - AgainMore than two years after it suffered a triple meltdown, theFukushima Daiichi nuclear power...McCurry, Justin
19 (Xinhua) -- Experts from China and Japan carried out the third technical dialogue on the ocean discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water on Wednesday in Beijing, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. Addressing a daily news briefing, spokesperson Lin Jian said that ...
A Japanese court on Thursday ordered the government to pay one million dollars in new damages over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, ruling it should have predicted and avoided the meltdown. The Kyoto district court ordered the government and power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO)...
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in
TOKYO (AP) — Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant showed exposed steel bars in the main supporting structure and parts of its thick external concrete wall missing, t
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New unpublished data reveals a slight rise in birth defects in post-nuclear-meltdown Japan. Jake Adelstein and Nathalie Stucky report on this exclusive data—and what Japan needs to do next to understand the health impact.
21 new plants to help transform Fukushima into a renewable energy hub As reported by Tokyo-based newspaper Nikkei Asian Review, plans are afoot to transform Fukushima into a renewable energy hub, with 21 wind and solar plants to be built and the power to be fed into the national grid for...
For more than a year after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, fishermen weren't allowed to fish at all; new nuclear plant leaks have dealt them another blow