TEPCO is turning to cosmic rays to get a look inside the stricken power station’s wrecked reactors, and
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TEPCO is turning to cosmic rays to get a look inside the stricken power station’s wrecked reactors, and
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The NRA gave the green light to TEPCO’s plan to dump toxic groundwater pumped up at the Fukushima Daiich
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Two workers died in separate accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the nearby Daini compl
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Five aging nuclear reactors will be decommissioned in the near future, a move that government officials hope w
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Four power companies plan to open talks with municipal governments as early as this month about decommissionin
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TEPCO diluted a dust suppressant that rendered it ineffective and allowed the spread of radioactive materials
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The Nuclear Regulation Authority said contaminated water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant sho
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A preliminary anti-terrorism plan to create a system that requires identity checks for people accessing nuclea
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New updated equipment that is scheduled to go into operation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Dec
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An effort to stop contaminated water from flowing into a trench at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power
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TEPCO’s goal of purifying all highly radioactive water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
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For sodium, the sixth-most abundant element on the planet, is being held up as the key to one of several new t
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The Generation IV International Forum was created in 2000 to do research on new types of nuclear reactors to r
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TEPCO said its trouble-plagued radioactive water treatment system at the complex has been partially suspended
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TEPCO filed a plan with regulators on Monday to build a facility for dumping toxic groundwater into the ocean
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Aug 12th began pumping up groundwater at disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear po
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TEPCO said that its new estimate shows that all the fuel rods in reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear powe
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TEPCO admitted on July 28th that the so-called groundwater bypass operation at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nu
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TEPCO unveiled a plan that would place blocks of ice in trenches at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power
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Roughly 20 or more second water tanks holding radioactively contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear
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A leak of radioactive water was found in the piping of water used to cool the spent fuel pool in the undamaged
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An ambitious plan by TEPCO to halt the leakage of contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plan
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According to TEPCO, it can’t confirm whether the groundwater bypass operation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear p
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In response to the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, the U.S. government dramatically increased funding t
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TEPCO said it is now able to properly measure the temperature and level of water used as a coolant inside the
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TEPCO will use a truck-mounted filtration system to extract strontium from water stored at the damaged Fukushi
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TEPCO began construction on June 2nd of a huge underground ice wall around four reactor buildings, it is said
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The Nuclear Regulation Authority said that it will allow TEPCO to begin construction of an underground ice wal
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TEPCO dumped into the Pacific Ocean tons of groundwater collected at the Fukushima No.1 plant after having con
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Kansai Electric Power Co. said to raise its earthquake force estimate for its Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui
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The experts and nuclear regulatory officials said at a meeting in Tokyo that they weren’t convinced the
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The combined level of radioactive tritium at four reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is estim
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Radioactivity levels exceeding standards to release groundwater into the ocean were discovered in a pump well
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Around 1.1 tons of radioactive water overflowed Wednesday from a container during cleansing of a water treatme
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TEPCO said on April 14th that about 203 tons of highly radioactive water have been erroneously sent to a build
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A local fishermen’s organization on March 25th decided to allow TEPCO to dump groundwater at the Fukushi
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Nuclear Regulation Authority decided on March 13th to prioritize the safety review of two reactors at Kyushu E
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Three years having passed since the outbreak of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster, radioactive
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Getting the radioactive element tritium out of even treated water has become a serious obstacle to work to dec
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Since three years has been past since the Great East Japan Earthquake, struggling to tackle the buildup of hig
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The cooling system at the No. 4 unit spent fuel pool at Fukushima Daiichi temporarily halted on Feb 25th after
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Roughly 100 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the huge tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclea
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TEPCO said on Feb 13th that it has detected a record 54,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per liter in grou
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The government on Feb 3rd sought approval of a nationwide fisheries federation to dump groundwater at the Fuku
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Two reactors at the accident-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were classified as defunct , reduc
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Japanese scientists have developed a method to use cosmic rays to see through a nuclear reactor, raising hopes
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TEPCO said that highly radioactive water found on the floor of the No. 3 reactor building could be a sign that
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A worker at Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant has been confirmed to have suffered internal exposure to radia
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Water that could contain radioactive material has been pouring into a drain on the first floor of the No. 3 re
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Nuclear regulators called on TEPCO to take action to address the rising radiation level at the border of Fukus
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The Japan Atomic Energy Agency is planning to melt a small nuclear fuel rod in an experiment at its research f
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As a former employee of TEPCO., Akihiro Yoshikawa says he knows about the miserable conditions, declining mora
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Air dose levels in an 80-kilometer area surrounding the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have drop
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TEPCO said Dec. 6 it detected the highest estimated radiation level for an outdoor location at the Fukushima N
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A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency proposed that TEPCO consider discharging less ha
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TEPCO said on Dec. 2 that it has detected radioactive materials that topped 36,000 times the permissible level
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Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) for the decontamination of radioactive water at Fukushima No. 1 nucle
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A Worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Nov 28th accidentally dropped an underwater camera in
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TEPCO said that a shortage of water storage tanks has forced it to postpone removal of radioactive groundwater
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IAEA expert team began reviewing fuel removal work that has just started at a spent fuel pool inside the damag
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TEPCO hopes to have four nuclear reactors in the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture back on
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Work to remove spent fuel from a storage pool inside No.4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear po
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TEPCO plans to permanently shut down two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi which avoided meltdowns during the
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TEPCO said on Nov 19th that work to remove fuel from the spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor building had ent
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TEPCO started a yearlong operation on Nov.18th to remove fuel from a pool at the No. 4 reactor building, which
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Asahi Newspaper interviewed a worker in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant who is famous on Twitter as his
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According to the government, IAEA experts will visit Japan later in November to study the fuel removal work at
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Radioactive substances from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will dilute to negligible levels in the ocean, b
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TEPCO said on Nov.11th that it will build a new drainage channel to prevent toxic water from directly flowing
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TEPCO has yet to figure out what to do with 2,700 tons of radioactive rainwater now stored in two underground
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TEPCO says it is ready to begin removing nuclear fuel assemblies from the spent fuel pool of the reactor 4 bui
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Two IAEA experts on Nov.7th began to help checking Japan’s marine radiation monitoring activities off th
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TEPCO will conduct a test for nuclear fuel removal at the No. 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi powe
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TEPCO is considering setting up an “in-house company” to deal with decommissioning the Fukushima N
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TEPCO will work with the U.S. Department of Energy in decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and th
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TEPCO said on Oct 22nd that it has detected radioactive cesium about 1 kilometer off the coast of Fukushima Da
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TEPCO said on Oct 21st that some of the rainwater that spilled from concrete barriers around clusters of tanks
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The highest level of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances, such as strontium, has been detected at one poi
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According to Asahi newspaper, a series of recent accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant may be s
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A pump to inject water into one of the severely damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant stoppe
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TEPCO said on Oct 2nd that it has found that an unspecified amount of water with a highly concentrated radioac
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A former U.S. nuclear regulatory chief said on Sept. 24 that leaks of contaminated water at the Fukushima plan
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A senior official of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed that TEPCO be split up through the creat
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A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Fukushima at early morning of Sept 20th. No abnormalities were observed at t
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Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Sept 18th started an investigation of the contamination of the s
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he urged TEPCO to scrap No.5 and 6 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nucle
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced on Sept. 18 that it has confirmed that steel struts for the exhaust
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TEPCO said on Sept 27th that it has dumped into the Pacific Ocean about 1,130 tons of rainwater caused by mass
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The Japanese Fisheries Agency will send a senior official to South Korea to ask the country to reconsider its
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers reported detecting high levels of radioactive strontium in a drainage ditch c
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TEPCO said on Sep 10th that it will invite U.S. nuclear expert Lake Barrett to as an outside adviser so as to
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TEPCO said on Sep 5th that it has detected 650 becquerels per liter of radioactive substances from groundwater
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The leader of Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Olympics has sent a letter to IOC members in order to reassure th
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Three people on Sep 3rd filed a criminal complaint against TEPCO and 32 of its current and former executives w
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TEPCO announced on Sept. 1 that 300 million becquerels of radiation per liter was detected in water leaking fr
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Very high radiation levels were observed on Aug 31st at three tanks and one of the pipes connecting them at Fu
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The water storage tanks at Fukushima Daiichi plant were built hastily and it was feared at the time that toxic
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Since TEPCO admitted on leaking radioactive water to the Pacific Ocean on July 22,international media attentio
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A national fishermen’s organization on Aug 29th pressed TEPCO to ensure there will be no further leaks o
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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kozhara agreed on Aug 26th that t
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