About UsThe Japanese government has lifted remaining evacuation orders for some areas of Kawamata Town, Namie Town, an
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The Japanese government has lifted remaining evacuation orders for some areas of Kawamata Town, Namie Town, an
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The Otsu district court on Wednesday imposed a temporary injunction against the operation of units 3 and 4 of
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Anti-nuclear group of India submitted a letter to the Japanese Government to oppose Japan-India nuclear agreem
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The World Nuclear Victims Forum was held in Hiroshima from November 21 to 23 and total about 300 participants
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The nuclear regulation authority (NRA) on Friday officially advised the science and technology minister to rep
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People forced to evacuate after the nuclear accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) operat
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The Governor of Ehime prefecture gave approval on Oct.26 for the restart of unit 3 of Shikoku Electric Power C
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TOKYO (Kyodo) — The health ministry certified a man with leukemia on Tuesday as having suffered an indus
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Kyushu Electric Power Co. restarted the No.2 reactor of its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima pref. on O
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A new study by Japanese epidemiologist analyzing the result data of ultrasound thyroid checkup in Fukushima pr
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TEPCO discharged into the sea 850 tons of filtered ground water taken from wells around the damaged reactor bu
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Bags filled with grass and soil from work to remove radioactive substances spewed by the crippled Fukushima No
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The evacuation order has been lifted for the town of Naraha in Fukushima prefecture on Sep.5, allowing 7,400 r
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says a primary factor behind the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster was a
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Fishermen’s association in Fukushima prefecture gave approval to Tokyo Electric Power Co. to release rad
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8 Japanese NGOs including environmental advocacy NGO and residents’ network within 30 km of the Sendai N
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Kyushu Electric Power Co. on Tuesday reactivated the No. 1 reactor of its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagosh
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Reconstruction agency of Japanese Govt. proposed revised basic policy of so-called “Children and Other V
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Kyushu Electric Power Co. on Tuesday afternoon began loading fuel into the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai power s
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The operator of the Sendai nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan plans to start loading fuel into one of t
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The government said Monday it now plans to lift its evacuation order for the town of Naraha in Fukushima Prefe
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The government will raise the maximum permissible radiation dose for people including local government officia
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Shareholders and politicians urged the nation’s top 9 utilities to exit nuclear power as the central governmen
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Fukushima prefecture will cover the all the medical costs for the patients who are diagnosed or suspected as t
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A study coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency o
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Japan has given in to India’s demand that it be allowed to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from Japanese-made rea
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7,128 people living in 3 municipalities in the north part of the Tochigi prefecure sought compensation Monday
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On June 17th, the government proposed lifting evacuation order to entire town of Naraha in Fukushima prefectu
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The Fukushima prefecture government announced on June 15th that it will stop providing free housing for volun
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. revealed their plan on June 7th that they will stop making blanket compensation paym
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The International Atomic Energy Agency criticized Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) and Japanese regulatory auth
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13 groups of plaintiffs suing over Fukushima nuclear disaster formed a network called “Hidanren” a
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Sixteen young people who lived in Fukushima prefecture at the time of Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant acci
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The proposal on the country’s optimal energy mix, compiled by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industr
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A committee of experts at the health ministry compleated a report on April 17th which recommends raising the
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Some 530 residents of a city near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant filed a lawsuit on April 17th demanding th
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TEPCO pledged to disclose all data on radiation levels at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant aft
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The Nuclear Regulation Authority accepted a report that says a reactor at Japan Atomic Power Co.’s Tsur
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Prefectural authorities here have dismissed any effect of radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Pla
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TEPCO and the government have spent 590 billion yen ($4.93 billion) battling the Fukushima nuclear disaster, b
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A team of researchers has developed a method to more precisely estimate the doses of radiation to the thyroid
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TEPCO released a “see-through” image of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Pla
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The municipal assembly here agreed on March 20 to approve the restart of two idled reactors at the Takahama Nu
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Kyushu Electric Power Co. and Chugoku Electric Power Co. decided to decommission aging reactors, following a s
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The mayors of over half of the municipalities near those hosting nuclear power plants have told the Mainichi S
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The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has decided to shift Japan’s radiation treatment strategy in the
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50 non-governmental organizations in Japan released a declaration to protest the“Convention on Supplementary C
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The Fukushima prefectural government approved on Tuesday the delivery of radioactively contaminated soil and o
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Highly radioactive rainwater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has likely leaked into the Pacific Ocean,
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Highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has leaked into a nearby bay, but the
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The Fukushima prefectural government may approve next week the delivery of radioactively contaminated soil and
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The Fukushima Prefectural Government will issue travel coupons next fiscal year for tourists staying at accomm
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With the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at Takahama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture having passed safety ins
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A child has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer after the latest survey on the health impact of the 2011 Fukush
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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 environment minister proposed to give Fukushima Prefecture and two prefectural towns the authority to chec
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The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office dismissed a case against three former senior executives of Tokyo
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East Japan Railway Co. said it will start a bus service through the effective exclusion zone around Tok
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it will fail to fulfill its commitment to process by the end of March all highly
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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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TEPCO will likely fall short of fulfilling its pledge to process all highly radioactive water stored at the cr
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Two members of a 15-person Kagoshima Prefectural Assembly committee that approved the restart of Sendai Nuclea
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The Abe administration has earmarked 1.5 billion yen ($12.75 million) for a new subsidy system designed to acc
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A town that co-hosts the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has agreed to the construction of an int
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A group of citizens, including some from Fukushima Prefecture, on Tuesday filed a second criminal complaint ag
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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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Moves to introduce renewable energy to secure power in case of serious natural disasters have been spreading t
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The number of workers injured at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant this fiscal year, which ends March 31, far
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Niigata Governor Hirohiko Izumida remained adamantly opposed to restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plan
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There are significant questions over where radioactive material from the 2011 nuclear accident will be permane
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Power companies have resisted government calls to construct safer storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel an
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All bags of rice harvested in Fukushima Prefecture in 2014 submitted for testing met the national standards fo
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The Tokyo metropolitan government has set a goal of quadrupling solar power generation capacity in the capital
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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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With its team of international researchers, Fukushima University’s Institute of Environmental Radioactivity mo
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The Foreign Ministry will help local governments tear down overseas barriers on food imports maintained becaus
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Mothers living near the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have compiled a booklet offering basic k
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The government and TEPCO have proposed to Fukushima Prefecture’s commerce and industry federation a plan
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The central government released dozens more closed-door accounts by people closely connected to the Fukushima
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Japan Atomic Power Co. is working on plans to send a team of more than 100 specialists, backed up by ro
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Four more children are suspected of suffering from thyroid cancer in the latest survey on the possible health
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A panel advising Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority said it cannot deny the possibility that key geolo
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The central government plans to lift evacuation recommendations in this city on Dec. 28 for areas of high loca
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The government has given up on an earlier plan, slated to start in January, to transport radioactive soil and
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TEPCO removed the final four fuel rods from the spent fuel pool in the No. 4 reactor building at the Fu
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More than 340 people forced to evacuate by the atomic meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 plant in 2011 filed a l
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Some 3,700 of those forced to flee during the Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011 have yet to exercise thei
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A committee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry began work to include, in a midterm report on energ
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Up to 6 tons of radioactive water has leaked into the ground at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear po
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Kansai Electric Power Co. is moving to raise household electricity rates for the second time after the 2011 Fu
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Two idled nuclear reactors owned by Kansai Electric Power Co. cleared the initial safety hurdle to being broug
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Regional utilities will be allowed to pass on costs to consumers for decommissioning nuclear power plants even
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Electricity Power Development Co. on Tuesday applied for state safety checks of the Oma nuclear power plant be
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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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The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) secretariat will submit documents by year’s end effectively appro
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Antinuclear plant protesters meeting every Friday in front of the prime minister’s official residence re
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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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